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Green fluorescent proteins (GFPs) are widely used tools to visualize proteins and study their intracellular distribution. One feature of working with GFP variants, photobleaching, has recently been combined with an older technique known as fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) to study protein kinetics in vivo. During photobleaching, fluorochromes get destroyed irreversibly by repeated excitation with an intensive light source. When the photobleaching is applied to a restricted area or structure, recovery of fluorescence will be the result of active or passive diffusion from fluorescent molecules from unbleached surrounding areas. Fluorescence loss in photobleaching (FLIP) is a variant of FRAP where an area is bleached, and loss of fluorescence in surrounding areas is observed. FLIP can be used to study the dynamics of different pools of a protein or can show how a protein diffuses, or is transported through a cell or cellular structure. Here, we discuss these photobleaching fluorescent imaging techniques, illustrated with examples of these techniques applied to proteins of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae pheromone response MAPK pathway.
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Abstract Fluorescence localization after photobleaching is a new method for localized photolabeling and subsequent tracking of specific molecules within living cells. The molecular species to be located carries two different fluorophores that can be imaged independently but simultaneously by fluorescence microscopy. For the method to work, these two fluorophores should be accurately colocalized throughout the cell so that their images are closely matched. One of the fluorophores (the target fluorophore) is then rapidly photobleached at a chosen location. The unbleached (reference) fluorophore remains colocalized with the target fluorophore; thus, the subsequent fate of the photobleached molecules can be revealed by processing simultaneously acquired digital images of the two fluorophores. Here we demonstrate the simplicity and effectiveness of the FLAP method in revealing both fast and slow molecular dynamics in living cells using a Zeiss LSM 510 laser scanning confocal microscope.
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