Probing protein folding and conformational transitions with fluorescence

CA Royer - Chemical reviews, 2006‏ - ACS Publications
Fluorescence arguably constitutes the most widely used experimental approach in the field
of protein folding. Hence, any review of the use of fluorescence to probe protein stability and …

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy: past, present, future

EL Elson - Biophysical journal, 2011‏ - cell.com
In recent years fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) has become a routine method
for determining diffusion coefficients, chemical rate constants, molecular concentrations …

[كتاب][B] Principles of fluorescence spectroscopy

JR Lakowicz - 2006‏ - Springer
The success of fluorescence experiments requires attention to experimental details and an
understanding of the instrumentation. There are also many potential artifacts that can distort …

Inert and seed-competent tau monomers suggest structural origins of aggregation

H Mirbaha, D Chen, OA Morazova, KM Ruff… - elife, 2018‏ - elifesciences.org
Tauopathies feature progressive accumulation of tau amyloids. Pathology may begin when
these amplify from a protein template, or seed, whose structure is unknown. We have …

Tau trimers are the minimal propagation unit spontaneously internalized to seed intracellular aggregation

H Mirbaha, BB Holmes, DW Sanders, J Bieschke… - Journal of biological …, 2015‏ - jbc.org
Tau amyloid assemblies propagate aggregation from the outside to the inside of a cell,
which may mediate progression of the tauopathies. The critical size of Tau assemblies, or" …

Bioorthogonal labeling with tetrazine-dyes for super-resolution microscopy

G Beliu, AJ Kurz, AC Kuhlemann… - Communications …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Genetic code expansion (GCE) technology allows the specific incorporation of
functionalized noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) into proteins. Here, we investigated the …

Single-molecule biophysics: at the interface of biology, physics and chemistry

AA Deniz, S Mukhopadhyay… - Journal of the Royal …, 2008‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Single-molecule methods have matured into powerful and popular tools to probe the
complex behaviour of biological molecules, due to their unique abilities to probe molecular …

Shot-noise limited single-molecule FRET histograms: comparison between theory and experiments

E Nir, X Michalet, KM Hamadani… - The journal of …, 2006‏ - ACS Publications
We describe a simple approach and present a straightforward numerical algorithm to
compute the best fit shot-noise limited proximity ratio histogram (PRH) in single-molecule …

Single-molecule studies of protein folding

A Borgia, PM Williams, J Clarke - Annu. Rev. Biochem., 2008‏ - annualreviews.org
Although protein-folding studies began several decades ago, it is only recently that the tools
to analyze protein folding at the single-molecule level have been developed. Advances in …

A natively unfolded yeast prion monomer adopts an ensemble of collapsed and rapidly fluctuating structures

S Mukhopadhyay, R Krishnan, EA Lemke… - Proceedings of the …, 2007‏ - pnas.org
The yeast prion protein Sup35 is a translation termination factor, whose activity is modulated
by sequestration into a self-perpetuating amyloid. The prion-determining domain, NM …