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Time course measurement of single molecules on a cell surface provides detailed information on the dynamics of the molecules, which is otherwise inaccessible. To extract the quantitative information, single particle tracking (SPT) is…

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Single molecule time traces reveal the time evolution of unsynchronized kinetic systems. Especially single molecule F\"orster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) provides access to enzymatically important timescales, combined with molecular…

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