Dual-color total internal reflection fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy
Dual-color total internal reflection fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy
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DOI:
10.1117/1.2221714
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发表时间:
2006-07-01
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
Lasser, Theo
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作者:
Leutenegger, Marcel;Blom, Hans;Lasser, Theo
We present the development and first application of a novel dual-color total internal reflection (TIR) fluorescence system for single-molecule coincidence analysis and fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy (FCCS). As a performance analysis, we measured a synthetic DNA-binding assay, demonstrating this dual-color TIR-FCCS approach to be a suitable method for measuring coincidence assays such as biochemical binding, fusion, or signal transduction at solid/liquid interfaces. Due to the very high numerical aperture of the epi-illumination configuration, our setup provides a very high fluorescence collection efficiency resulting in a two- to three- fold increase in molecular brightness compared to conventional confocal FCCS. Further improvements have been achieved through global analysis of the spectroscopic data. (c) 2006 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.