FRET as a biomolecular research tool—understanding its potential while avoiding pitfalls

WR Algar, N Hildebrandt, SS Vogel, IL Medintz - Nature methods, 2019 - nature.com
… of single-molecule FRETsingle-molecule FRET and other advanced applications are
available elsewhere 4,5,6 . We begin with a rationale for using FRET, quickly review basic FRET

Single-molecule FRET methods to study the dynamics of proteins at work

H Mazal, G Haran - Current opinion in biomedical engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Single-molecule experimental techniques can solve many of … Many studies of protein machines
at the single-molecule level have … A second group of single-molecule methods, based on …

A guide to small fluorescent probes for single-molecule biophysics

MC Leake, SD Quinn - Chemical Physics Reviews, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
… and versatile for single-molecule sensing applications … a practical guide to their use,
focusing on the single-molecule … to perform successful single-molecule experiments, including …

The smfBox is an open-source platform for single-molecule FRET

B Ambrose, JM Baxter, J Cully, M Willmott… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
… At the single-molecule level FRET is sensitive to heterogeneous subpopulations, can …
inter-laboratory benchmarking study 5 , absolute FRET efficiencies can be used to infer precise …

Single-molecule FRET of intrinsically disordered proteins

LA Metskas, E Rhoades - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Single-molecule FRET measurements were combined with modeling to allow for the
determination of rate constants for the initial formation of Type A oligomers and subsequent …

Single-Molecule FRET: Principles and Analysis

B Israels, LM Lund, V Birkedal - Fluorescence Spectroscopy and …, 2023 - Springer
… This in turn makes single-molecule FRET an interesting tool for dynamic structural …
single-molecule FRET spectroscopy and the added information it gives compared to ensemble FRET

High-resolution single-molecule FRET via DNA eXchange (FRET X)

M Filius, SH Kim, I Severins, C Joo - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
… However, currently, only a couple of FRET pairs can be reliably measured on a single object…
single-molecule FRET for structural analysis of biomolecules. Here, we present an approach

Reliability and accuracy of single-molecule FRET studies for characterization of structural dynamics and distances in proteins

G Agam, C Gebhardt, M Popara, R Mächtel, J Folz… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
FRET efficiency E values from the photon counts detected in the donor (D) and acceptor (A)
detection channels during a single-molecule … and exclusion of single-molecule events from …

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer at the single-molecule level

T Ha, J Fei, S Schmid, NK Lee… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
… Often, conformational changes and molecular interactions are difficult or impossible to
synchronize, or too rare or transient to detect using ensemble FRET. Single-molecule FRET (…

Extending single-molecule Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) Range beyond 10 nanometers in zero-mode waveguides

M Baibakov, S Patra, JB Claude, A Moreau, J Lumeau… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
… (60−62) Here, we show that ZMWs can also enable the detection of single-molecule
FRET well beyond the classical 10 nm barrier with classical fluorescent dyes constructs. This …