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Inside Cover: Fluorogenic Protein Labeling through Photoinduced Electron Transfer‐Based BL‐Tag Technology (Chem. Asian J. 2/2012)
Author(s) -
Sadhu Kalyan K.,
Mizukami Shin,
Lanam Carolyn R.,
Kikuchi Kazuya
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
chemistry – an asian journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.18
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1861-471X
pISSN - 1861-4728
DOI - 10.1002/asia.201290001
Subject(s) - photoinduced electron transfer , cover (algebra) , electron transfer , visibility , chemistry , biophysics , nanotechnology , photochemistry , materials science , biology , physics , optics , engineering , mechanical engineering
Fluorogenic protein labeling helps to localize a protein within the cell in the presence of an excess amount of quenched probes. In their Communication on page 272 ff. , K. Kikuchi et al. propose an alternative fast approach for fluorogenic protein labeling. The fluorogenicity can be introduced by the removal of a photoinduced electron transfer‐based dynamic quencher. This strategy is more effective compared to the removal of a static aggregated quencher. The cover picture illustrates the better visibility of fireworks at the dynamic state (photo taken at the Hanabi festival in Japan; Sujata Kar Saha helped with cover design).