• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: MINFLUX monitors rapid molecular jumps with superior spatiotemporal resolution
  • Contributor: Eilers, Yvan; Ta, Haisen; Gwosch, Klaus C.; Balzarotti, Francisco; Hell, Stefan W.
  • imprint: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018
  • Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1801672115
  • ISSN: 0027-8424; 1091-6490
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  • Description: <jats:title>Significance</jats:title> <jats:p>Popular localization of single molecules through calculating the centroid of the diffraction pattern produced by molecular fluorescence on a camera is typically limited to spatiotemporal resolutions of &gt;10 nm per &gt;10 milliseconds. By requiring at least 10–100 times fewer detected photons and being free of bias due to molecular orientation, the localization concept called MINFLUX propels molecular tracking to the hitherto-unachievable regime of single-digit nanometer precision within substantially less than a millisecond. Our experiments herald the feasibility to detect molecular interactions and conformational changes at microsecond timescales.</jats:p>
  • Access State: Open Access