The brightness of fluorescent agents directly determines the imaging performance as required.Among various fluorophores,small organic species are promising given its exact purity/composition and excellent processibili...The brightness of fluorescent agents directly determines the imaging performance as required.Among various fluorophores,small organic species are promising given its exact purity/composition and excellent processibility.However,chromophores with planar geometry may suffer from the undesirable aggregation-caused quenching(ACQ)phenomenon.Encouragingly,luminogens showing aggregation-induced emission(AIE)features are preferable as the aggregates which are the most common used state.In this review,we mainly focus on the strategies employed for boosting the brightness of AIE-active luminogens(AIEgens).From molecule to mor-phology levels,approaches that regulate electronic transition processes of the molecule or the packing extent of aggregates in order to confine molecular motion,reduceπ-πstacking,disrupt fluorophore-water interactions,etc.,are presented.In the end,the current challenges and perspectives are briefly discussed.We anticipate that this review will stimulate new insights and more efforts for the advancement of ultrabright AIEgens.展开更多
Dear Editor,CRISPR-Cas9 （clustered regularly interspaced short palin- dromic repeats-CRISPR associated） systems have been harnessed for kinds of genome manipulation, including gene editing, transcription regulation,...Dear Editor,CRISPR-Cas9 （clustered regularly interspaced short palin- dromic repeats-CRISPR associated） systems have been harnessed for kinds of genome manipulation, including gene editing, transcription regulation, and chromosome loci imaging （Dominguez et al., 2016; Komor et al., 2017）. A typical engineered CRISPR-Cas9 system is composed of a Cas9 protein and a single guide RNA （sgRNA）, which could form a protein/RNA complex to recognize and cleave DNA sequence （Hsu et al., 2014; Wright et al., 2016）.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52122317,22175120)the Developmental Fund for Science and Technology of Shenzhen government(JCYJ20220531101201003,RCYX20200714114525101,JCYJ20190808153415062,JCYJ20190808142403590)the Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Guangdong Province(2020B1515020011).
文摘The brightness of fluorescent agents directly determines the imaging performance as required.Among various fluorophores,small organic species are promising given its exact purity/composition and excellent processibility.However,chromophores with planar geometry may suffer from the undesirable aggregation-caused quenching(ACQ)phenomenon.Encouragingly,luminogens showing aggregation-induced emission(AIE)features are preferable as the aggregates which are the most common used state.In this review,we mainly focus on the strategies employed for boosting the brightness of AIE-active luminogens(AIEgens).From molecule to mor-phology levels,approaches that regulate electronic transition processes of the molecule or the packing extent of aggregates in order to confine molecular motion,reduceπ-πstacking,disrupt fluorophore-water interactions,etc.,are presented.In the end,the current challenges and perspectives are briefly discussed.We anticipate that this review will stimulate new insights and more efforts for the advancement of ultrabright AIEgens.
文摘Dear Editor,CRISPR-Cas9 （clustered regularly interspaced short palin- dromic repeats-CRISPR associated） systems have been harnessed for kinds of genome manipulation, including gene editing, transcription regulation, and chromosome loci imaging （Dominguez et al., 2016; Komor et al., 2017）. A typical engineered CRISPR-Cas9 system is composed of a Cas9 protein and a single guide RNA （sgRNA）, which could form a protein/RNA complex to recognize and cleave DNA sequence （Hsu et al., 2014; Wright et al., 2016）.
