PIE FastFLIM microscopy allows the quantitative multi-parameter measurement of single molecule protein folding and dynamics. Using donor-acceptor FRET pair-labeled proteins, we detect changes in protein conformation and dynamics by monitoring FRET efficiency, stoichiometry and lifetime. Together with anisotropy decay information, we acquire rotational relaxation times for single molecules. By applying antibunching, FLCS and burst analysis, multi-parameters (such as copy numbers in protein complexes), diffusion coefficient and molecular brightness can be fitted for deeper understanding of the conformational dynamic behavior of single protein molecules. In this paper, we’ll focus on the multiparameters of FRET efficiency, stoichiometry and lifetime.

Date Published: 21 February 2017
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 10069, Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XVII, 100691X (21 February 2017); doi: 10.1117/12.2255961

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 10069:
Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XVII
Ammasi Periasamy; Peter T. C. So; Karsten König; Xiaoliang S. Xie, Editor(s)