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Paper
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2009, 8, 465 - 469, DOI: 10.1039/b822533h
Multicolor photoswitching microscopy for subdiffraction-resolution fluorescence imaging
Sebastian van de Linde, Ulrike Endesfelder, Anindita Mukherjee, Mark Schüttpelz, Gerd Wiebusch, Steve Wolter, Mike Heilemann and Markus Sauer
We introduce a general approach for multicolor subdiffraction-resolution fluorescence imaging based on photoswitching of standard organic fluorophores. Photoswitching of ordinary fluorophores such as ATTO520, ATTO565, ATTO655, ATTO680, or ATTO700, i.e. the reversible transition from a fluorescent to a nonfluorescent state in aqueous buffers exploits the formation of long-lived triplet radical anions through reaction with reducing agents such as
-mercaptoethylamine and repopulation of the singlet ground state by interaction with molecular oxygen. Thus, the time the different fluorophores reside in the fluorescent state can be easily adjusted by the excitation intensity and the concentration of the reducing agent. We demonstrate the potential of multicolor photoswitching microscopy with subdiffraction-resolution on cytoskeletal networks and molecular quantification of proteins in the inner mitochondrial membrane with 
20 nm optical resolution.
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