Single-photon avalanche diode imagers in biophotonics: review and outlook

C Bruschini, H Homulle, IM Antolovic, S Burri… - Light: Science & …, 2019 - nature.com
Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays are solid-state detectors that offer imaging
capabilities at the level of individual photons, with unparalleled photon counting and time …

Toward dynamic structural biology: Two decades of single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer

E Lerner, T Cordes, A Ingargiola, Y Alhadid, SY Chung… - Science, 2018 - science.org
BACKGROUND Biomolecular mechanisms are typically inferred from static structural
“snapshots” obtained by x-ray crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) …

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer at the single-molecule level

T Ha, J Fei, S Schmid, NK Lee… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a powerful spectroscopic method for
measuring distances in the 2–8 nm range. Often, conformational changes and molecular …

FRET-based dynamic structural biology: Challenges, perspectives and an appeal for open-science practices

E Lerner, A Barth, J Hendrix, B Ambrose, V Birkedal… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Single-molecule FRET (smFRET) has become a mainstream technique for studying
biomolecular structural dynamics. The rapid and wide adoption of smFRET experiments by …

Conformational and dynamic plasticity in substrate-binding proteins underlies selective transport in ABC importers

M de Boer, G Gouridis, R Vietrov, SL Begg… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Substrate-binding proteins (SBPs) are associated with ATP-binding cassette importers and
switch from an open to a closed conformation upon substrate binding, providing specificity …

The structural heterogeneity of α-synuclein is governed by several distinct subpopulations with interconversion times slower than milliseconds

J Chen, S Zaer, P Drori, J Zamel, K Joron, N Kalisman… - Structure, 2021 - cell.com
Summary α-Synuclein plays an important role in synaptic functions by interacting with
synaptic vesicle membrane, while its oligomers and fibrils are associated with several …

Single-molecule detection and super-resolution imaging with a portable and adaptable 3D-printed microscopy platform (Brick-MIC)

GG Moya Muñoz, O Brix, P Klocke, PD Harris… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Over the past decades, single-molecule and super-resolution microscopy have advanced
and represent essential tools for life science research. There is, however, a growing gap …

Multi-parameter photon-by-photon hidden Markov modeling

PD Harris, A Narducci, C Gebhardt, T Cordes… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Single molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) is a unique biophysical
approach for studying conformational dynamics in biomacromolecules. Photon-by-photon …

Custom silicon technology for SPAD-arrays with red-enhanced sensitivity and low timing jitter

A Gulinatti, F Ceccarelli, M Ghioni, I Rech - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Single-photon detection is an invaluable tool for many applications ranging from basic
research to consumer electronics. In this respect, the Single Photon Avalanche Diode …

Single pair Förster resonance energy transfer: a versatile tool to investigate protein conformational dynamics

L Voith von Voithenberg, DC Lamb - BioEssays, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Conformational changes of proteins and other biomolecules play a fundamental role in their
functional mechanism. Single pair Förster resonance energy transfer (spFRET) offers the …