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Photoconvertible fluorescent proteins are potential tools for investigating dynamic processes in living cells and for emerging super-resolution microscopy techniques. Unfortunately, most probes in this class are hampered by oligomerization, small photon budgets or poor photostability. Here we report an EosFP variant that functions well in a broad range of protein fusions for dynamic investigations, exhibits high photostability and preserves the ∼10-nm localization precision of its parent.
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10 May 2011
In the version of this supplementary file originally posted online, the mitotic phases were mislabeled in Supplementary Figure 10; during amendment of the figure legend, two of the mitotic phases (metaphase and prophase) could not be tracked back to the original data. The images have been replaced, and the labeling of mitotic phases has been corrected in this file as of 10 May 2011.
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We thank H. White and S. Winfrey for performing cell cultures and transfections, E. Betzig and H. Shroff (Janelia Farm Research Campus) for help with PALM imaging and for providing their analysis software, and E. Ramko and K. Wilson for technical assistance with fusion-vector construction.
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McKinney, S., Murphy, C., Hazelwood, K. et al. A bright and photostable photoconvertible fluorescent protein. Nat Methods 6, 131–133 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1296
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