Professor Peter So's Laboratory
BEAM group (Bioinstrumentation Engineering And Microanalysis)

Multi-Photon Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS)

Investigators: Serge Pelet, Mike Previte, Peter So

                                       
                                       
                                       
Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) has been employed to study translational and rotational diffusion, chemical reactions, single molecule detection, flow and other biochemical processes. With the recent development of dual-color FCS, it is now possible analyze the dynamics of bi-molecular association processes, such as nucleic acid strand annealing, antibody-antigen interactions, or ligand-receptor binding (1).
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Presently, the sensitivity of two-color FCS systems is limited by spectral bleedthrough or crosstalk in individual detection channels. Thus, there exists a lower detection limit for two-color labeled association product. We are developing multi-spectral multi-photon FCS based on single photon counting multi-anode-PMT systems. Spectral resolved detection allows the elimination of bleed-through error based on numerical decomposition.

 
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
Schwille, P. et al. Biophys. J. 66:211, 1997                            
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
                                       
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