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  • Open Access
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Single-Molecule Analysis of the Improved Variants of the G-Quadruplex Recognition Protein G4P

  • Paras Gaur,
  • Fletcher E. Bain,
  • Masayoshi Honda,
  • Sophie L. Granger and
  • Maria Spies

As many as 700,000 unique sequences in the human genome are predicted to fold into G-quadruplexes (G4s), non-canonical structures formed by Hoogsteen guanine–guanine pairing within G-rich nucleic acids. G4s play both physiological and pathologi...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
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18 Pages

Application of Single Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy to Characterize the Penetration of a Large Amphiphilic Molecule in the Stratum Corneum of Human Skin

  • Pierre Volz,
  • Alexander Boreham,
  • Alexander Wolf,
  • Tai-Yang Kim,
  • Jens Balke,
  • Janna Frombach,
  • Sabrina Hadam,
  • Zahra Afraz,
  • Fiorenza Rancan and
  • Ulrike Alexiev
  • + 2 authors

27 March 2015

We report here on the application of laser-based single molecule total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM) to study the penetration of molecules through the skin. Penetration of topically applied drug molecules is often observed to be...