Which mechanism causes photobleaching of fluorophores in live-cell laser microscopy?

💡 Explanation

Prolonged laser excitation causes fluorophores to undergo photobleaching because free radical formation damages them. Radicals attack the fluorophore’s chemical structure, irrevocably altering it, therefore it no longer fluoresces, rather than transferring to other states.

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