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 …

Imaging live-cell dynamics and structure at the single-molecule level

Z Liu, LD Lavis, E Betzig - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Observation of molecular processes inside living cells is fundamental to a quantitative
understanding of how biological systems function. Specifically, decoding the complex …

A general method to improve fluorophores for live-cell and single-molecule microscopy

JB Grimm, BP English, J Chen, JP Slaughter, Z Zhang… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Specific labeling of biomolecules with bright fluorophores is the keystone of fluorescence
microscopy. Genetically encoded self-labeling tag proteins can be coupled to synthetic dyes …

Quantitative super-resolution imaging with qPAINT

R Jungmann, MS Avendaño, M Dai, JB Woehrstein… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Counting molecules in complexes is challenging, even with super-resolution microscopy.
Here, we use the programmable and specific binding of dye-labeled DNA probes to count …

Multiplex chromatin interactions with single-molecule precision

M Zheng, SZ Tian, D Capurso, M Kim, R Maurya, B Lee… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The genomes of multicellular organisms are extensively folded into 3D chromosome
territories within the nucleus. Advanced 3D genome-map** methods that combine …

Electrochemically controlled blinking of fluorophores for quantitative STORM imaging

Y Yang, Y Ma, JF Berengut, LK Lee, RD Tilley… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) allows wide-field imaging with single-
molecule resolution by calculating the coordinates of individual fluorophores from the …

Resolution doubling in light-sheet microscopy via oblique plane structured illumination

B Chen, BJ Chang, P Roudot, F Zhou, E Sapoznik… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) doubles the spatial resolution of a fluorescence
microscope without requiring high laser powers or specialized fluorophores. However, the …

RNA Polymerase II cluster dynamics predict mRNA output in living cells

WK Cho, N Jayanth, BP English, T Inoue, JO Andrews… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Protein clustering is a hallmark of genome regulation in mammalian cells. However, the
dynamic molecular processes involved make it difficult to correlate clustering with functional …

Tracking single molecules at work in living cells

A Kusumi, TA Tsunoyama, KM Hirosawa… - Nature chemical …, 2014 - nature.com
Methods for imaging and tracking single molecules conjugated with fluorescent probes,
called single-molecule tracking (SMT), are now providing researchers with the …

Control of mammalian gene expression by selective mRNA export

VO Wickramasinghe, RA Laskey - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2015 - nature.com
Nuclear export of mRNAs is a crucial step in the regulation of gene expression, linking
transcription in the nucleus to translation in the cytoplasm. Although important components …