Photoswitching FRET to monitor protein–protein interactions

A FRET-facilitated photoswitching using an orange fluorescent protein with the fast photoconversion kinetics.

Fluorescent proteins photoswitchable with noncytotoxic light irradiation and spectrally distinct from multiple available photoconvertible green-to-red probes are in high demand. We have developed a monomeric fluorescent protein, called PSmOrange2, which is photoswitchable with blue light from an orange (ex./em. at 546 nm/561 nm) to a far-red (ex./em. at 619 nm/651 nm) form. Compared to another ...

A Novel, Comprehensive Method to Detect and Predict Proteinprotein Interactions Applied to the Study of Vesicular Trafficking

Motivation. Computational methods to predict protein–protein interactions are of great need. They can help to formulate hypotheses, guide experimental research and serve as additional measures to assess the quality of data obtained in high-throughput interaction experiments. Here, we describe a fully automated threestep procedure to predict and confirm protein–protein interactions. By maximisin...

Combining QD-FRET and Microfluidics to Monitor DNA Nanocomplex Self-Assembly in Real-Time

Advances in genomics continue to fuel the development of therapeutics that can target pathogenesis at the cellular and molecular level. Typically functional inside the cell, nucleic acid-based therapeutics require an efficient intracellular delivery system. One widely adopted approach is to complex DNA with a gene carrier to form nanocomplexes via electrostatic self-assembly, facilitating cellu...

Mining Gene-Disease Relationships from Biomedical Literature: Weighting Proteinprotein Interactions and Connectivity

Motivation: The promises of the post-genome era disease-related discoveries and advances have yet to be fully realized, with many opportunities for discovery hiding in the millions of biomedical papers published since. Public databases give access to data extracted from the literature by teams of experts, but their coverage is often limited and lags behind recent discoveries. We present a compu...

Surface Plasmon Resonance Used to Monitor Biological Interactions