Genetically-encoded fluorescent biosensors have revolutionized our understanding of complex systems by permitting the in situ observation of chemical activities. However, only a comparatively small se...

We present Rho-tag and SiR-tag, engineered protein tags derived from bacterial multidrug-resistance proteins that bind unsubstituted (silicon-) rhodamines with nanomolar affinity, enabling fast, rever...

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Nature Photonics - The authors present a review of super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging (SOFI), including its core working principle, recent advances and remaining challenges.

PhD Project - Single molecule biology of bacterial cell wall remodelling at University of Warwick, listed on FindAPhD.com

Potassium ion (K+) is the most abundant metal ion in cells and plays an indispensable role in practically all biological systems. Although there have been reports of both synthetic and genetically encoded fluorescent K+ indicators, there remains a need for an indicator that is genetically targetable, has high specificity for K+ versus Na+, and has a high fluorescent response in the red to far-red wavelength range. Here, we introduce a series of chemigenetic K+ indicators, designated as the HaloKbp1 series, based on the bacterial K+-binding protein (Kbp) inserted into HaloTag7 self-labeled with environmentally sensitive rhodamine derivatives. This series of high-performance indicators features high brightness in the red to far-red region, large intensiometric fluorescence changes, and a range of Kd values. We demonstrate that they are suitable for the detection of physiologically relevant K+ concentration changes such as those that result from the Ca2+-dependent activation of the BK potassium channel.