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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Isselstein, Michael
• Zhang, Lei
• Glembockyte, Viktorija
• Brix, Oliver
• Cosa, Gonzalo
• Tinnefeld, Philip
• Cordes, Thorben

Titel

Self-Healing Dyes-Keeping the Promise?

Ist Teil von

• The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2020-06, Vol.11 (11), p.4462-4480

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Self-healing dyes have emerged as a new promising class of fluorescent labels. They consist of two units, a fluorescent dye and a photostabilizer. The latter heals whenever the fluorescent dye is in danger of taking a reaction pathway toward photobleaching. We describe the underlying concepts and summarize the developmental history and state-of-the-art, including latest applications in high-resolution microscopy, live-cell, and single-molecule imaging. We further discuss remaining limitations, which are (i) lower photostabilization of most self-healing dyes when compared to solution additives, (ii) limited mechanistic understanding on the influence of the biochemical environment and molecular oxygen on self-healing, and (iii) the lack of cheap and facile bioconjugation strategies. Finally, we provide ideas on how to further advance self-healing dyes, show new data on redox blinking caused by double-stranded DNA, and highlight forthcoming work on intramolecular photostabilization of fluorescent proteins.