Starkuviene V, Pepperkok R
Cell Biology and Cell Biophysics Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Meyerhofstrasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
Br J Pharmacol. 2007 Sep;152(1):62-71. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0707346. Epub 2007 Jul 2.
Fluorescence microscopy is a powerful method to study protein function in its natural habitat, the living cell. With the availability of the green fluorescent protein and its spectral variants, almost any gene of interest can be fluorescently labelled in living cells opening the possibility to study protein localization, dynamics and interactions. The emergence of automated cellular systems allows rapid visualization of large groups of cells and phenotypic analysis in a quantitative manner. Here, we discuss recent advances in high-content high-throughput microscopy and its potential application to several steps of the drug discovery process.
荧光显微镜术是一种在活细胞这个天然环境中研究蛋白质功能的强大方法。随着绿色荧光蛋白及其光谱变体的问世,几乎任何感兴趣的基因都能在活细胞中进行荧光标记,从而开启了研究蛋白质定位、动力学及相互作用的可能性。自动化细胞系统的出现使得对大量细胞进行快速可视化观察以及进行定量表型分析成为可能。在此,我们将讨论高内涵高通量显微镜术的最新进展及其在药物发现过程多个步骤中的潜在应用。