Biology – Quantitative Biology – Biomolecules
Scientific paper
2011-07-11
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Biomolecules
Scientific paper
Diffusion coefficient measurements are important for many biological and material investigations, such as particle dynamics, kinetics, and size determinations. Amongst current measurement methods, single particle tracking (SPT) offers the unique capability of providing location and diffusion information of a molecule simultaneously while using only femptomoles of sample. However, the temporal resolution of SPT is limited to seconds for single-color labeled samples. By directly imaging three dimensional (3D) diffusing fluorescent proteins and studying the widths of their intensity profiles, we determine the proteins' diffusion coefficients using single protein images of sub-millisecond exposure times. This simple method improves the temporal resolution of diffusion coefficient measurements to sub-millisecond, and can be readily applied to a range of particle sizes in SPT investigations and applications where diffusion coefficient measurements are needed, such as reaction kinetics and particle size determinations.
DeSantis Michael C.
Kessler Jonathan
Li Je-Luen
Wang Yu-Ming
Zareh Shannon Kian
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