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Cell surface receptors allowthe cell to sense and respond to external signals. Receptor malfunctions are associated with many diseases. The diffusional behavior of receptors is of particular interest to understand how the cell modulates receptor function i ...

EPFL2016

Fluorogenic Probes for Multicolor Imaging in Living Cells

Kai Johnsson, Luc Reymond, Grazvydas Lukinavicius, Olivier Vincent Sallin, Keitaro Umezawa

Here we present a far-red, silicon-rhodamine-based fluorophore (SiR700) for live-cell multicolor imaging. SiR700 has excitation and emission maxima at 690 nm and 715 nm, respectively. SiR700-based probes for F-actin, microtubules, lysosomes and SNAP-tag ar ...

American Chemical Society2016

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Multivalent interactions between effector proteins and histone post-translational modifications are an elementary mechanism of dynamic chromatin signalling. Here we elucidate the mechanism how heterochromatin protein 1α (HP1α), a multivalent effector, is e ...

2015

Engineering chromatin states: Chemical and synthetic biology approaches to investigate histone modification function

Beat Fierz, Horst Pick, Sinan Kilic

Patterns of histone post-translational modifications (PTMs) and DNA modifications establish a landscape of chromatin states with regulatory impact on gene expression, cell differentiation and development. These diverse modifications are read out by effecto ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Epigenetic factors like histone modifications are known to play an important role in gene regulation and cell differentiation. Recently, thanks to advances in technologies like ChIP-Seq which is a high-throughput, high resolution, and low cost technology ...

EPFL2014

Since the pioneering work of Hirschfeld, it is known that time-integrated emission (TiEm) of a fluorophore is independent of fluorescence quantum yield and illumination intensity. Practical implementation of this important result for determining exact prob ...

Mdpi Ag2014

Study of cell differentiation by phylogenetic analysis using histone modification data

Bernard Moret, Philipp Bucher, Yu Lin, Nishanth Ulhas Nair, Paulina Grnarova, Jelena Antic, Ana Manasovska

Background: In cell differentiation, a cell of a less specialized type becomes one of a more specialized type, even though all cells have the same genome. Transcription factors and epigenetic marks like histone modifications can play a significant role in ...

BioMed Central2014

A Quantitative Approach to Evaluate the Impact of Fluorescent Labeling on Membrane-Bound HIV-Gag Assembly by Titration of Unlabeled Proteins

Suliana Manley, Romain Wyss

The assembly process of the human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) is driven by the viral polyprotein Gag. Fluorescence imaging of Gag protein fusions is widely performed and has revealed important information on viral assembly. Gag fusion proteins are com ...

Public Library Science2014

Cell permeable, fluorescent dye

Kai Johnsson, Keitaro Umezawa

The invention pertains to a near-infrared fluorescent dye that is cell permeable and can be attached to selected proteins in living cells. The dye has the general formula (I) or its or its corresponding spirolactone (II) wherein Y is chosen from the group ...

2013

A 2D/3D image analysis system to track fluorescently labeled structures in rod-shaped cells: application to measure spindle pole asymmetry during mitosis

Michaël Unser, Daniel Sage, Viesturs Simanis, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Anastasia Chasapi, Ioannis Xenarios

Background: The yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is frequently used as a model for studying the cell cycle. The cells are rod-shaped and divide by medial fission. The process of cell division, or cytokinesis, is controlled by a network of signaling proteins ...

Biomed Central Ltd2013