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FRET Microscopy for Real-time Monitoring of Signaling Events in Live Cells Using Unimolecular Biosensors
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2012
Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) microscopy is a powerful technique for real-time monitoring of signaling events in live cells using various biosensors as reporters. Here we describe how to build a customized epifluorescence FRET imaging system from commercially available components and how to use it for FRET experiments.
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Highly Sensitive and Rapid Fluorescence Detection with a Portable FRET Analyzer
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2016
This protocol describes the rapid and highly sensitive quantification of Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) sensor data using a custom-made portable FRET analyzer. The device was used to detect maltose within a critical temperature range that maximizes detection sensitivity, enabling practical and efficient assessment of sugar content.
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Sensitive Detection of Proteopathic Seeding Activity with FRET Flow Cytometry
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2015
Cell-to-cell transfer of protein aggregates, or proteopathic seeds, may underlie the progression of pathology in neurodegenerative diseases. Here, a novel FRET flow cytometry assay is described that enables specific and sensitive detection of seeding activity from recombinant or biological samples.
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Ratiometric Biosensors that Measure Mitochondrial Redox State and ATP in Living Yeast Cells
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2013
We describe the use of two ratiometric, genetically encoded biosensors, which are based on GFP, to monitor mitochondrial redox state and ATP levels at subcellular resolution in living yeast cells.
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Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)
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2023
Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a phenomenon used to investigate close-range biochemical interactions. In FRET, a donor photoluminescent molecule can non-radiatively transfer energy to an acceptor molecule if their respective emission and absorbance spectra overlap. The amount of energy transferred—and consequently the overall emission of sample—depends on the proximity of an acceptor-donor pair of photoluminescent molecules. FRET analysis is combined with other biochemistry...
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The signal depends on the donor and acceptor fluorophores being within a few nanometers and on their relative orientation. A biochemical event can change either feature by altering molecular structure or interactions. Because energy transfer is sensitive to these relationships, the resulting fluorescence provides a readout of molecular changes rather than merely indicating that the probe is present.
A donor-to-acceptor emission ratio converts changes in energy transfer into a measurable fluorescence signal. When signaling rearranges the probe, the balance between donor and acceptor emissions changes, allowing investigators to track biochemical activity over time. This ratio-based readout connects molecular structure or binding-related changes with dynamic cellular signaling in living neurons.
FRET biosensors may be genetically encoded or constructed as molecular probes. Genetically encoded designs are suited to reporting activity within living neurons, while molecular probes provide another way to couple biochemical changes to fluorophore behavior. In either case, the essential design requirement is a donor-acceptor relationship that responds to changes in structure or molecular interaction.
In neuroscience, these probes can report intracellular calcium, kinase activity, and small GTPase signaling, along with other dynamic biochemical processes. This range allows the same fluorescence-based principle to examine different classes of neuronal regulation. The selected biosensor determines which molecular activity is translated into a change in donor-to-acceptor emission.
Its spatial and temporal resolution allows biochemical activity to be visualized as it changes within living neurons. Measurements can therefore relate intracellular calcium, kinase, or small GTPase signaling to events associated with synaptic function. Rather than treating signaling as a static molecular state, the approach helps place these changes in the timing and location of neuronal activity.
FRET biosensors can be used to visualize dynamic biochemical processes relevant to neuronal development, including calcium, kinase, and small GTPase activity. Their fluorescence changes provide spatially and temporally resolved information about signaling in living neurons. This makes them useful for examining how intracellular molecular events correspond to developmental changes in neuronal organization and function.