Measuring, in solution, multiple-fluorophore labeling by combining Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy and photobleaching

Details Measuring, in solution, multiple-fluorophore labeling by combining Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy and photobleaching Measuring, in solution, multiple-fluorophore labeling by combining Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy and photobleaching

2009-09-04

arxiv.org/abs/0909.0878v2

Journal of Physical Chemistry B 114, 8 (2010) 2988

Physics

Chemical Physics

38 pages (avec les figures)

Scientific paper

10.1021/jp910082h

Determining the number of fluorescent entities that are coupled to a given molecule (DNA, protein, etc.) is a key point of numerous biological studies, especially those based on a single molecule approach. Reliable methods are important, in this context, not only to characterize the labeling process, but also to quantify interactions, for instance within molecular complexes. We combined Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) and photobleaching experiments to measure the effective number of molecules and the molecular brightness as a function of the total fluorescence count rate on solutions of cDNA (containing a few percent of C bases labeled with Alexa Fluor 647). Here, photobleaching is used as a control parameter to vary the experimental outputs (brightness and number of molecules). Assuming a Poissonian distribution of the number of fluorescent labels per cDNA, the FCS-photobleaching data could be easily fit to yield the mean number of fluorescent labels per cDNA strand (@ 2). This number could not be determined solely on the basis of the cDNA brightness, because of both the statistical distribution of the number of fluorescent labels and their unknown brightness when incorporated in cDNA. The statistical distribution of the number of fluorophores labeling cDNA was confirmed by analyzing the photon count distribution (with the cumulant method), which showed clearly that the brightness of cDNA strands varies from one molecule to the other.

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