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David Piston

Professor and Chair, Cell Biology & Physiology, Washington University
Verified email at wustl.edu
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Fluorescent protein FRET: the good, the bad and the ugly

DW Piston, GJ Kremers - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2007 - cell.com
Dynamic protein interactions play a significant part in many cellular processes. A technique
that shows considerable promise in elucidating such interactions is Förster resonance …

Fluorescent proteins at a glance

…, PJ Cranfill, MW Davidson, DW Piston - Journal of cell …, 2011 - journals.biologists.com
The original green fluorescent protein (GFP) was discovered back in the early 1960s when
researchers studying the bioluminescent properties of the Aequorea victoria jellyfish isolated …

Imaging living cells and tissues by two-photon excitation microscopy

DW Piston - Trends in cell biology, 1999 - cell.com
… David W Piston David W Piston … Denk, W., Piston, DW and Webb, WW (1995) The
Handbook of Biological Confocal Microscopy (2nd edn) (Pawley, J., ed.), pp. 445–458, Plenum …

Use of the green fluorescent protein and its mutants in quantitative fluorescence microscopy

…, SM Knobel, WD Sharif, SR Kain, DW Piston - Biophysical journal, 1997 - cell.com
We have investigated properties relevant to quantitative imaging in living cells of five green
fluorescent protein (GFP) variants that have been used extensively or are potentially useful. …

An improved cyan fluorescent protein variant useful for FRET

MA Rizzo, GH Springer, B Granada, DW Piston - Nature biotechnology, 2004 - nature.com
… (d) Cyan and mCit channels are shown from a βTC3 cell expressing the Cerulean glucokinase
biosensor before and after insulin stimulation (100 nM, 2 min). (e,f) Spectral imaging (800-…

[HTML][HTML] Ablation of PRDM16 and beige adipose causes metabolic dysfunction and a subcutaneous to visceral fat switch

…, MJ Jurczak, S Kajimura, DW Piston, D Mathis… - Cell, 2014 - cell.com
A clear relationship exists between visceral obesity and type 2 diabetes, whereas subcutaneous
obesity is comparatively benign. Here, we show that adipocyte-specific deletion of the …

Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) as regulators of dorsal forebrain development

Y Furuta, DW Piston, BLM Hogan - Development, 1997 - journals.biologists.com
… Arrowheads indicate expression of Bmp2 in the dorsal surface ectoderm (A,F), Bmp5 in the
most anterior neuroectoderm (C,H) and Bmp7 in the anterior foregut and notochord (D). The …

A bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) system: application to interacting circadian clock proteins

Y Xu, DW Piston, CH Johnson - Proceedings of the …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
We describe a method for assaying protein interactions that offers some attractive advantages
over previous assays. This method, called bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (…

Regulation of corepressor function by nuclear NADH

Q Zhang, DW Piston, RH Goodman - Science, 2002 - science.org
The corepressor CtBP (carboxyl-terminal binding protein) is involved in transcriptional
pathways important for development, cell cycle regulation, and transformation. We demonstrate …

Electron microscopy of whole cells in liquid with nanometer resolution

…, GJ Kremers, DW Piston - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
… (D) Line-scan over a gold nanoparticle of 10 nm diameter at the bottom of 1.3 μm liquid (10%
PBS buffer in water) in a test sample without cells. The pixel size was 0.91 nm. See also Fig…