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ReviewActa pharmaceutica Sinica. B2018

Fluorogen-activating proteins: beyond classical fluorescent proteins.

Shengnan Xu, Hai-Yu Hu

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Review in Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Reversible, Chemically Gated FRET via Ligand-Activated Acceptors.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  5. Protein Engineering for Spatiotemporally Resolved Cellular Monitoring.Annual review of analytical chemistry (Palo Alto, Calif.) · 2025
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  6. Experimental Approaches to Visualize Effector Protein Translocation During Host-Pathogen Interactions.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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  9. Biofilm dispersal patterns revealed using far-red fluorogenic probes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  10. Meta-CFInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  19. Editorial for Molecular Imaging and Theranostics.Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Shengnan XuState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Function of Natural Medicine, Institute of Materia Medica, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100050, China.
Hai-Yu HuState Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Function of Natural Medicine, Institute of Materia Medica, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100050, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fluorescence imaging is a powerful technique for the real-time noninvasive monitoring of protein dynamics. Recently, fluorogen activating proteins (FAPs)/fluorogen probes for protein imaging were developed. Unlike the traditional fluorescent proteins (FPs), FAPs do not fluoresce unless bound to their specific small-molecule fluorogens. When using FAPs/fluorogen probes, a washing step is not required for the removal of free probes from the cells, thus allowing rapid and specific detection of proteins in living cells with high signal-to-noise ratio. Furthermore, with different fluorogens, living cell multi-color proteins labeling system was developed. In this review, we describe about the discovery of FAPs, the design strategy of FAP fluorogens, the application of the FAP technology and the advances of FAP technology in protein labeling systems.

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Fluorescence imagingFluorogen activating proteinsFluorogensGenetically encoded sensorsMolecular imaging

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PMID29881673
PMCPMC5989828

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