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ArticleBiophysical journal2011

Development of time-integrated multipoint moment analysis for spatially resolved fluctuation spectroscopy with high time resolution.

Doogie Oh, Alexandra Zidovska, Yangqing Xu, Daniel J Needleman

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Doogie OhSchool of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Alexandra Zidovska
Yangqing Xu
Daniel J Needleman
Center for Systems Biology · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatial gradients in the behaviors of soluble proteins are thought to underlie many phenomena in cell and developmental biology, but the nature and even the existence of these gradients are often unclear because few techniques can adequately characterize them. Methods with sufficient temporal resolution to study the dynamics of diffusing molecules can only sample relatively small regions, whereas methods that are capable of imaging larger areas cannot probe fast timescales. To overcome these limitations, we developed and implemented time-integrated multipoint moment analysis (TIMMA), a form of fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy that is capable of probing timescales down to 20 μs at hundreds of different locations simultaneously in a sample. We show that TIMMA can be used to measure the diffusion of small-molecule dyes and fluorescent colloids, and that it can create spatial maps of the behavior of soluble fluorescent proteins throughout mammalian tissue culture cells. We also demonstrate that TIMMA can characterize internal gradients in the diffusion of freely moving proteins in single cells.

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Coloring AgentsDiffusionElectronsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsGTP PhosphohydrolasesHeLa CellsHumansSolubilitySpectrometry, FluorescenceTime FactorsColoring Agentsenhanced green fluorescent proteinGreen Fluorescent ProteinsGTP Phosphohydrolases

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PMID21943437
PMCPMC3177073
OpenAlexW2078412317

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