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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2017

Single-Molecule Photoactivation FRET: A General and Easy-To-Implement Approach To Break the Concentration Barrier.

Sijia Peng, Ruirui Sun, Wenjuan Wang, Chunlai Chen

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sijia PengSchool of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Ruirui SunSchool of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Wenjuan WangSchool of Life Sciences, Technology Center for Protein Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Chunlai ChenSchool of Life Sciences, Tsinghua-Peking Joint Center for Life Sciences, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0128-7766
Center for Life Sciences · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (sm-FRET) has become a widely used tool to reveal dynamic processes and molecule mechanisms hidden under ensemble measurements. However, the upper limit of fluorescent species used in sm-FRET is still orders of magnitude lower than the association affinity of many biological processes under physiological conditions. Herein, we introduce single-molecule photoactivation FRET (sm-PAFRET), a general approach to break the concentration barrier by using photoactivatable fluorophores as donors. We demonstrate sm-PAFRET by capturing transient FRET states and revealing new reaction pathways during translation using μm fluorophore labeled species, which is 2-3 orders of magnitude higher than commonly used in sm-FRET measurements. sm-PAFRET serves as an easy-to-implement tool to lift the concentration barrier and discover new molecular dynamic processes and mechanisms under physiological concentrations.

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FRETphotoactivatable fluorophoresproteinsRNA translationsingle-molecule studies

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PMID28493637
PMCPMC5488182
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