FRET Microscopy—Probing the Nanoscale
A Special Issue of Biophysica (ISSN 2673-4125).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2027 | Viewed by 32
Editor
Interests: biomedical optics; laser; microscopy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Biophysica will focus on Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) and related mechanisms to probe nanometer distances in cells, tissues and related model systems. FRET is based on an interaction of optical transition dipoles of a donor molecule and an acceptor molecule (intermolecular FRET) or of different chromophoric groups of one molecule (intramolecular FRET) with a distance of about 10 nm or less between one another. Following excitation of the donor, non-radiative energy transfer may occur, and acceptor fluorescence commonly arises whereas donor fluorescence is quenched.
Manuscripts dedicated to this issue may include the following:
- Super-resolution microscopy;
- Basic mechanisms of FRET;
- Methodology, e.g., spectral imaging of fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM);
- Applications, e.g., in pharmacology, diagnostics or basic research.
Prof. Dr. Herbert Schneckenburger
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- light microscopy
- FRET
- fluorescence lifetime
- fluorescent proteins
- living cells
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