Selected Single-Molecule Experiments with Relevance to Living Cells

(bold entries in living cells)

Modified from: Lord, S. J.; Lee, H. D.; Moerner, W. E. Single-Molecule Spectroscopy and Imaging of Biomolecules in Living Cells. Anal. Chem. 2010, 82(6), 2192-2203. (HTML, PDF)

year

milestone

primary group leaders

references

1961

catalytic activity from one enzyme measured (by observing the buildup of fluorescence from a fluorogenic substrate)

Rotman

5

1978 optical detection of a single polymer molecule (labeled with many fluorophores) Hirschfeld 125

1981

single strands of DNA visualized (labeled with many fluorophores)

Yanagida, Chu

6, 7

1982

diffusion of single membrane-bound receptor molecules measured (labeled with many fluorophores)

W. Webb

8

1986

single actin filaments (labeled with many fluorophores) sliding on myosin coverslips

Spudich

127

1988 tracking movements with nm precision Sheetz 126

1989, 1990

first optical detection of single chromophore in condensed matter (cryogenic)

Moerner, Orrit

13−15

action from single molecular motors recorded by observing motion of filaments (e.g., sliding assays)

Vale, Yanagida, Spudich

117

1990

room-temperature detection of single molecules from burst analysis in solution

Keller, Rigler, Zare

16−18

1991

first imaging of a single molecule (cryogenic)

Moerner

15, 99

1992

elastic measurements of single strands of DNA using magnetic tweezers

Bustamante, Croquette, Bensimon

1, 3

1993

room-temperature SMS using near-field tips

Betzig

20

room-temperature SMS in microdroplets

Ramsey

19

force studies of single macromolecules using optical tweezers or cantilevers

Block, Gaub

2, 4

1995

single motor molecules imaged

Yanagida, Kinosita, Vale

27−29

1996

3D nanoscale tracking of single emitters, using TIRF evanescent field

Moerner

21

first single-pair FRET measurements

Weiss, Ha

25

diffusion of single emitters recorded in a phospholipid membrane

Schmidt, Schindler

26

1997

first SMS of fluorescent proteins

Moerner, Tsien, Vale

24, 118

first room-temperature SMS example of controlled photoswitching, a fluorescent protein

Moerner, Tsien

24

1998

3D orientations of single molecules measured from dipole emission pattern (room temperature)

Moerner

119

3D super-resolution by spectral selection of single molecules (cryogenic)

Betzig, van Oijen, Schmidt, Moerner

90, 99−101

single-molecule enzymatic turnovers of flavoenzyme Xie, Lu 124

2000

spFRET measured in living cells

Yanagida, Kusumi, S. Webb

96−98

3D tracking of single fluorophores in living cells

Schuetz, Schindler

78

transmembrane ion channels tracked

Schmidt, Schuetz, Schindler

77, 78

2001

nucleotide-dependent orientations of single kinesin motors measured

Moerner, Goldstein

30

binding kinetics to chemotactic receptors in the membrane observed

Yanagida

79

infection pathway of singly labeled viruses observed

Brauchle

91

2002

SMS in membranes

Moerner, McConnell, Kusumi, Dahan, Triller

67−69, 71−74, 76

2003

single motor proteins tracked with high precision and super-resolution

Selvin, Spudich

120, 121

2004

protein localization and movement in living bacteria cells using FP labels

Moerner, Shapiro, McAdams

35, 85−87

molecules tracked through nuclear pore complexes

Musser

82

2005

nerve growth factor tracked in living neurons

Tani, Yanagida, Chu, Mobley, Cui

89, 122

2006

high-precision tracing of filaments in living bacteria

Moerner, Shapiro

35

super-resolution SMS techniques PALM, STORM, and FPALM introduced

Betzig, H. Hess, Lippincott-Schwartz, Zhuang, S. Hess

102−104

single-molecule gene expression events studied in living bacteria

Xie

36, 94, 95

singly labeled molecular motors observed in living cells

Meyhoefer, Dahan, Cappello, Spudich

92, 93, 123

2007

super-resolution SMS images of living cells

Betzig, H. Hess, Lippincott-Schwartz, S. Hess, Moerner

54, 87, 107−109

SMS used to count the number of subunits in membrane-bound proteins

Isacoff, Verkman

80, 81

2008

interaction of cell-penetrating peptides with membrane observed

Moerner, Wender

75

single monomers of the cytoskeletal protein photoactivated and tracked

Yu

88

2009

SMS in living vertebrates

Schmidt, Schaaf

110

 

 

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