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리서치 하이라이트

Blue-conversion of organic dyes produces artifacts in multicolor fluorescence imaging

2021-10-12 2003
Author
Sung Ho Ryu
Journal
Chem Sci. 2021 Jul 1; 12(25): 8660–8667.
Date of Publication
2021-07

Abstract

Multicolor fluorescence imaging is a powerful tool visualizing the spatiotemporal relationship among biomolecules. Here, we report that commonly employed organic dyes exhibit a blue-conversion phenomenon, which can produce severe multicolor image artifacts leading to false-positive colocalization by invading predefined spectral windows, as demonstrated in the case study using EGFR and Tensin2. These multicolor image artifacts become much critical in localization-based superresolution microscopy as the blue-converted dyes are photoactivatable. We provide a practical guideline for the use of organic dyes for multicolor imaging to prevent artifacts derived by blue-conversion.

 


 

 
 

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