Caveat fluorophore: an insiders' guide to small-molecule fluorescent labels

JB Grimm, LD Lavis - Nature Methods, 2022 - nature.com
The last three decades have brought a revolution in fluorescence microscopy. The
development of new microscopes, fluorescent labels and analysis techniques has pushed …

Fluorescent proteins and genetically encoded biosensors

M Wang, Y Da, Y Tian - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The genetically encoded fluorescent sensors convert chemical and physical signals into
light. They are powerful tools for the visualisation of physiological processes in living cells …

[HTML][HTML] Phase separation of a PKA regulatory subunit controls cAMP compartmentation and oncogenic signaling

JZ Zhang, TW Lu, LM Stolerman, B Tenner, JR Yang… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The fidelity of intracellular signaling hinges on the organization of dynamic activity
architectures. Spatial compartmentation was first proposed over 30 years ago to explain how …

Mitochondria–lysosome contacts regulate mitochondrial fission via RAB7 GTP hydrolysis

YC Wong, D Ysselstein, D Krainc - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Both mitochondria and lysosomes are essential for maintaining cellular homeostasis, and
dysfunction of both organelles has been observed in multiple diseases,,,. Mitochondria are …

NeuroPAL: a multicolor atlas for whole-brain neuronal identification in C. elegans

E Yemini, A Lin, A Nejatbakhsh, E Varol, R Sun… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Comprehensively resolving neuronal identities in whole-brain images is a major challenge.
We achieve this in C. elegans by engineering a multicolor transgene called NeuroPAL (a …

The glia-neuron lactate shuttle and elevated ROS promote lipid synthesis in neurons and lipid droplet accumulation in glia via APOE/D

L Liu, KR MacKenzie, N Putluri, M Maletić-Savatić… - Cell metabolism, 2017 - cell.com
Elevated reactive oxygen species (ROS) induce the formation of lipids in neurons that are
transferred to glia, where they form lipid droplets (LDs). We show that glial and neuronal …

Quantitative assessment of fluorescent proteins

PJ Cranfill, BR Sell, MA Baird, JR Allen, Z Lavagnino… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The advent of fluorescent proteins (FPs) for genetic labeling of molecules and cells has
revolutionized fluorescence microscopy. Genetic manipulations have created a vast array of …

A bright monomeric green fluorescent protein derived from Branchiostoma lanceolatum

NC Shaner, GG Lambert, A Chammas, Y Ni… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
We report a monomeric yellow-green fluorescent protein, mNeonGreen, derived from a
tetrameric fluorescent protein from the cephalochordate Branchiostoma lanceolatum …

Selection of a multidrug resistance plasmid by sublethal levels of antibiotics and heavy metals

E Gullberg, LM Albrecht, C Karlsson, L Sandegren… - MBio, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
How sublethal levels of antibiotics and heavy metals select for clinically important multidrug
resistance plasmids is largely unknown. Carriage of plasmids generally confers substantial …

Bright monomeric near-infrared fluorescent proteins as tags and biosensors for multiscale imaging

DM Shcherbakova, M Baloban, AV Emelyanov… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Monomeric near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent proteins (FPs) are in high demand as protein
tags and components of biosensors for deep-tissue imaging and multicolour microscopy. We …