Journal
ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 410, Issue 1, Pages 62-69Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2010.11.010
Keywords
Phasor; Frequency domain; Fluorescence lifetimes; Solvent relaxation; FRET
Funding
- National Institutes of Health [RO1GM076665]
- Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic [LC06063]
- Charles University in Prague via Fond Mobility
- Allergan
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The phasor method of treating fluorescence lifetime data provides a facile and convenient approach to characterize lifetime heterogeneity and to detect the presence of excited state reactions such as solvent relaxation and Forster resonance energy transfer. The method uses a plot of M sin(Phi) versus M cos(Phi), where M is the modulation ratio and Phi is the phase angle taken from frequency domain fluorometry. A principal advantage of the phasor method is that it provides a model-less approach to time-resolved data amenable to visual inspection. Although the phasor approach has been recently applied to fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy, it has not been used extensively for cuvette studies. In the current study, we explore the applications of the method to in vitro samples. The phasors of binary and ternary mixtures of fluorescent dyes demonstrate the utility of the method for investigating complex mixtures. Data from excited state reactions, such as dipolar relaxation in membrane and protein systems and also energy transfer from the tryptophan residue to the chromophore in enhanced green fluorescent protein, are also presented. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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