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ReviewBiophysical journal2025

FRET-FCS: Advancing comprehensive insights into complex biological systems.

Anay Lazaro-Alfaro, Sterling L N Nicholas, Hugo Sanabria

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Review in Biophysical journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Anay Lazaro-AlfaroDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.
Sterling L N NicholasDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.
Hugo SanabriaDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. Electronic address: hsanabr@clemson.edu.

Funding

SINGLE MOLECULE ANALYSIS OF PSD-95 STRUCTURE AND LIGAND BINDINGR01MH081923 · NIMH · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI BOWEN, MARK E · 2008 to 2022
$5.6M
Resolving the intoxication mechanism of botulinum neurotoxins using single molecule structural biologyR01GM151334 · NIGMS · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI Mark E Bowen · 2023 to 2026
$1.4M
Impact of pathogenic missense mutations on the ARID domain of ARID1aR15CA280699 · NCI · CLEMSON UNIVERSITY · PI SANABRIA, HUGO · 2023 to 2023
$443k
NCI NIH HHS R15 CA280699NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM151334NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH081923
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a short-range distance-dependent photophysical phenomenon that allows the measurement of intra- and intermolecular distances through fluorescence detection. FRET measurements are sensitive to the movements of fluorescently labeled molecules as they produce fluorescence fluctuations. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) analyzes these fluctuations at faster and broader timescales (from picoseconds to seconds) compared with other techniques, unraveling the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of the system under study. Therefore, the combination of FRET and FCS (FRET-FCS) facilitates the analysis of molecular dynamics. Since its introduction, FRET-FCS has evolved into studying more sophisticated systems, requiring improvements in data acquisition and analysis. In this review, we discuss applications in the field of FRET-FCS that propose novel alternatives to overcome the inherent limitations of experimental setups. This work aims to promote using and enhancing FRET-FCS techniques to develop a comprehensive understanding of biological systems.

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Fluorescence Resonance Energy TransferAnimalsHumansSpectrometry, Fluorescence

Identifiers

PMID40241306
PMCPMC12709254

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