Structural Dynamics in Chloroplast Signal Recognition Particle (cpSRP) Proteins Studied with Single Molecule Fluorescence

Exploring single-molecule dynamics with fluorescence nanoscopy

The study of molecular dynamics at the single-molecule level with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) and far-field optics has contributed greatly to the functional understanding of complex systems. Unfortunately, such studies are restricted to length scales of >200 nm because diffraction does not allow further reduction of the measurement volume. This sets an upper limit on the applica...

Processive cytoskeletal motors studied with single-molecule fluorescence techniques.

Processive cytoskeletal motors from the myosin, kinesin, and dynein families walk on actin filaments and microtubules to drive cellular transport and organization in eukaryotic cells. These remarkable molecular machines are able to take hundreds of successive steps at speeds of up to several microns per second, allowing them to effectively move vesicles and organelles throughout the cytoplasm. ...

Single Molecule Dynamics Studied by Polarization Modulation.

We observed and made unambiguous distinctions between abrupt photophysical events of single molecules: a rotational jump of a single dipole, a transition to a dark state (reversible and irreversible photobleaching), and a spectral jump. The study was performed in the far field by modulating the excitation polarization and monitoring the fluorescence in time. This technique also allowed us to me...

Interfacial electron transfer dynamics in dye-modified graphene oxide nanosheets studied by single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy.

Graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets have received a great deal of attention for a wide range of applications from optoelectronic devices to biological sensors. We now report a mechanistic study of the interfacial electron transfer (ET) processes between organic dye molecule, 9-phenyl-2,3,7-trihydroxy-6-fluorone (PF), and nanometre-sized GO sheets using ensemble-averaged and single-molecule spectrosc...

University of Groningen Assembly dynamics of supramolecular protein - DNA complexes studied by single - molecule fluorescence microscopy