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We thank K. Bacia for critical reading of the manuscript and valuable comments, and E. Haustein, K. Bacia, M.N. Waxham, D.R. Larson and W.R. Zipfel for helpful and constructive discussions. This work was supported by grants of the Fulbright Kommission to S.A.K., the German Ministry for Education and Research to P.S. and Human Frontiers to P.S.
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Kim, S., Heinze, K. & Schwille, P. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy in living cells. Nat Methods 4, 963–973 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth1104
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