Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands
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Blog Post
Published
March 21, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
... ligands can elicit varying degrees of β-arrestin-2 recruitment to receptors, indicating their agonistic...small-molecule fluorescent labels. Nature Methods, 19(2), 149–158. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01338... is technically cell-permeable, its use in live cells can sometimes result in cellular toxicity due to... Dyes that can pass through cell membranes can prove useful for live-cell imaging.
Experimental context...Additionally, cell permeability is a critical factor, as it influences the dye's ability to enter cells without...enabled the visualization of both organic tissues and cell cultures, opening biological interiors to many inquisitive...fluorophores to enable highly specific visualization of cellular components, typically a protein of interest. Fluorescent...