The growing and glowing toolbox of fluorescent and photoactive proteins

EA Rodriguez, RE Campbell, JY Lin, MZ Lin… - Trends in biochemical …, 2017 - cell.com
Over the past 20 years, protein engineering has been extensively used to improve and
modify the fundamental properties of fluorescent proteins (FPs) with the goal of adapting …

Microfluidic techniques for high throughput single cell analysis

A Reece, B Xia, Z Jiang, B Noren, R McBride… - Current opinion in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Microfluidics complements high sensitivity molecular tools, allowing single cell
analysis.•Cells can be directly manipulated by a variety of fields, with forces equivalent …

A highly photostable and bright green fluorescent protein

M Hirano, R Ando, S Shimozono, M Sugiyama… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The low photostability of fluorescent proteins is a limiting factor in many applications of
fluorescence microscopy. Here we present StayGold, a green fluorescent protein (GFP) …

StayGold variants for molecular fusion and membrane-targeting applications

R Ando, S Shimozono, H Ago, M Takagi, M Sugiyama… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Although StayGold is a bright and highly photostable fluorescent protein, its propensity for
obligate dimer formation may hinder applications in molecular fusion and membrane …

Directed evolution of a bright variant of mCherry: suppression of nonradiative decay by fluorescence lifetime selections

S Mukherjee, P Manna, ST Hung… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The approximately linear scaling of fluorescence quantum yield (ϕ) with fluorescence
lifetime (τ) in fluorescent proteins (FPs) has inspired engineering of brighter fluorophores …

Photophysical engineering of fluorescent proteins: Accomplishments and challenges of physical chemistry strategies

S Mukherjee, R Jimenez - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022 - ACS Publications
Fluorescent proteins (FPs) have become ubiquitous tools for biological research and
concomitantly they are intriguing molecules that are amenable to study with a wide range of …

Efficient distributed density peaks for clustering large data sets in mapreduce

Y Zhang, S Chen, G Yu - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Density Peaks (DP) is a recently proposed clustering algorithm that has distinctive
advantages over existing clustering algorithms. It has already been used in a wide range of …

High-throughput, image-based screening of pooled genetic-variant libraries

G Emanuel, JR Moffitt, X Zhuang - Nature methods, 2017 - nature.com
We report a high-throughput screening method that allows diverse genotypes and
corresponding phenotypes to be imaged in individual cells. We achieve genotyping by …

Overcoming weaknesses of density peak clustering using a data-dependent similarity measure

Z Rasool, S Aryal, MR Bouadjenek, R Dazeley - Pattern Recognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Density Peak Clustering (DPC) is a popular state-of-the-art clustering algorithm,
which requires pairwise (dis) similarity of data objects to detect arbitrary shaped clusters …

Droplet microfluidic flow cytometer for sorting on transient cellular responses of genetically-encoded sensors

BL Fiedler, S Van Buskirk, KP Carter, Y Qin… - Analytical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Fluorescent biosensors are important measurement tools for in vivo quantification of pH,
concentrations of metal ions and other analytes, and physical parameters such as …