Optical probes in biology / editors, Jin Zhang, Sohum Mehta, Carsten Schultz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Engineering of optimized fluorescent proteins : an overview from a cyan & FRET perspective / Lindsay Haarbosch, Joachim Goedhart, Mark A. Hink, Laura van Weeren, Daphne S. Bindels, and Theodorus W. J. Gadella -- Fluorescence imaging techniques : FRET and complementary methods / Stefan Terjung and Yury Belyaev -- Protein-based calcium sensors / Thomas Thestrup and Oliver Griesbeck -- Monitoring membrane lipids with protein domains expressed in living cells / Peter Varnai and Tamas Balla -- Biosensors of GTPase proteins for use in living cells and animals / Ellen C. O'Shaughnessy, Jason J. Yi, and Klaus M. Hahn -- Molecular beacon-based mRNA detection / Felix H诶elmann and Oliver Seitz -- Optical probes for metabolic signals / Yin Pun Hung and Gary Yellen -- Genetically encoded voltage indicators / Hiroki Mutoh, Walter Akemann, and Thomas Kn诰fel -- Prototypical kinase sensor design motifs for in vitro and in vivo imaging / Gary C. H. Mo, Ambhighainath Ganesan, and Jin Zhang -- RNA / Samie R. Jaffrey -- Fluorescent sensors for imaging zinc dynamics in biological fluids / Wen-hong Li -- Histone modification sensors in living cells / Hiroshi Kimura and Yuko Sato -- Chemical probes for fluorescence imaging in living mice / Toshiyuki Kowada, Hiroki Maeda, and Kazuya Kikuchi -- Optical probes for in vivo brain imaging / Ksenia V. Kastanenka, Michal Arbel-Ornath, Eloise Hudry, Elena Galea, Hong Xie, and Brian J. Bacskai -- Smart imaging probes for the study of protease function / Ehud Segal and Matthew Bogyo -- Superresolution imaging / Robert K. Neely, Wim Vandenberg, and Peter Dedecker -- Imaging in optogenetics / Xiaobo Wang, Li He, Carol A. Vandenberg, and Denise Montell.