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- Title
Impact of Molecule Concentration, Diffusion Rates and Surface Passivation on Single-Molecule Fluorescence Studies in Solution.
- Authors
Yukhnovets, Olessya; Höfig, Henning; Bustorff, Nuno; Katranidis, Alexandros; Fitter, Jörg
- Abstract
For single-molecule studies in solution, very small concentrations of dye-labelled molecules are employed in order to achieve single-molecule sensitivity. In typical studies with confocal microscopes, often concentrations in the pico-molar regime are required. For various applications that make use of single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) or two-color coincidence detection (TCCD), the molecule concentration must be set explicitly to targeted values and furthermore needs to be stable over a period of several hours. As a consequence, specific demands must be imposed on the surface passivation of the cover slides during the measurements. The aim of having only one molecule in the detection volume at the time is not only affected by the absolute molecule concentration, but also by the rate of diffusion. Therefore, we discuss approaches to control and to measure absolute molecule concentrations. Furthermore, we introduce an approach to calculate the probability of chance coincidence events and demonstrate that measurements with challenging smFRET samples require a strict limit of maximal sample concentrations in order to produce meaningful results.
- Subjects
SURFACE passivation; FLUORESCENCE resonance energy transfer; PASSIVATION; SURFACE diffusion; COINCIDENCE circuits
- Publication
Biomolecules (2218-273X), 2022, Vol 12, Issue 3, p468
- ISSN
2218-273X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/biom12030468