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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-2-17
pubmed:abstractText
Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) efficiency distributions in single-molecule experiments contain both structural and dynamical information. Extraction of this information from these distributions requires a careful analysis of contributions from dye photophysics. To investigate how mechanisms other than FRET affect the distributions obtained by counting donor and acceptor photons, we have measured single-molecule fluorescence trajectories of a small alpha/beta protein, i.e., protein GB1, undergoing two-state, folding/unfolding transitions. Alexa 488 donor and Alexa 594 acceptor dyes were attached to cysteines at positions 10 and 57 to yield two isomers-donor(10)/acceptor(57) and donor(57)/acceptor(10)-which could not be separated in the purification. The protein was immobilized via binding of a histidine tag added to a linker sequence at the N-terminus to cupric ions embedded in a polyethylene-glycol-coated glass surface. The distribution of FRET efficiencies assembled from the trajectories is complex with widths for the individual peaks in large excess of that caused by shot noise. Most of this complexity can be explained by two interfering photophysical effects-a photoinduced red shift of the donor dye and differences in the quantum yield of the acceptor dye for the two isomers resulting from differences in quenching rate by the cupric ion. Measurements of steady-state polarization, calculation of the donor-acceptor cross-correlation function from photon trajectories, and comparison of the single molecule and ensemble kinetics all indicate that conformational distributions and dynamics do not contribute to the complexity.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1542-0086
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2010 Biophysical Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
17
pubmed:volume
98
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
696-706
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-7-25
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Distinguishing between protein dynamics and dye photophysics in single-molecule FRET experiments.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. chunghoi@niddk.nih.gov
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural