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ArticleNature communications2025

All-optical strategies to minimize photobleaching in reversibly switchable fluorescent proteins.

Guillem Marín-Aguilera, Francesca Pennacchietti, Andrea Volpato, Alessia Papalini, Abhilash Kulkarni, Niusha Bagheri, Guillaume Minet, Jerker Widengren, Ilaria Testa

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. A Versatile Tool to Predict and Guide RESOLFT Images Based on Photoswitching, Labelling and Optical Properties.Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Guillem Marín-Aguilera *SciLifeLab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Solna, Sweden.
Francesca Pennacchietti *SciLifeLab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Solna, Sweden. francesca.pennacchietti@scilifelab.se.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1769-972X
Andrea VolpatoSciLifeLab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Solna, Sweden.
Alessia PapaliniSciLifeLab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Solna, Sweden.
Abhilash KulkarniExperimental Biomolecular Physics, Dept. Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Niusha BagheriExperimental Biomolecular Physics, Dept. Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Guillaume MinetSciLifeLab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Solna, Sweden.
Jerker WidengrenExperimental Biomolecular Physics, Dept. Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3200-0374
Ilaria TestaSciLifeLab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Solna, Sweden. ilaria.testa@scilifelab.se.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4005-4997

Funding

Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) 2021-04556Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) 2022-04415
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Photobleaching is a general hurdle of fluorescence-based techniques especially in high-resolution microscopy that relies on prolonged and complex illumination. Strategies to reduce photobleaching require chemical modifications of the cell medium, which often compromise physiological cellular conditions. Here, we outline an all-optical strategy to minimize photobleaching in reversibly switching fluorescent proteins (RSFPs), a class of probes used in super-resolution and protein-multiplexing imaging techniques. By identifying the photobleaching pathways, we develop imaging schemes to increase the number of on-off photoswitching cycles, either modulating the on-switching light or co-irradiating the RSFPs with light at longer wavelengths with respect to fluorescence excitation. We apply the optimized imaging scheme to achieve imaging multiplexing at high-spatiotemporal resolutions and to record longer time-lapse imaging of sub-cellular structures with both confocal microscopy and parallelized RESOLFT nanoscopy.

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Luminescent ProteinsPhotobleachingAnimalsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHumansLightMicroscopy, ConfocalMicroscopy, FluorescenceTime-Lapse ImagingGreen Fluorescent ProteinsLuminescent Proteins

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PMID41326380
PMCPMC12672575

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