Photoswitching-Induced Frequency-Locked Donor鈥揂cceptor Fluorescence Double Modulations Identify the Target Analyte in Complex Environments

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• 作者：Zhiyuan Tian ; Wuwei Wu ; Wei Wan ; Alexander D. Q. Li
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：October 12, 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：133
• 期：40
• 页码：16092-16100
• 全文大小：1019K
• 年卷期：v.133,no.40(October 12, 2011)
• ISSN：1520-5126

文摘

Precisely identifying biological targets and accurately extracting their relatively weak signals from complicated physiological environments represent daunting challenges in biological detection and biomedical diagnosis. Fluorescence techniques have become the method of choice and offer minimally invasive and ultrasensitive detections, thus, providing a wealth of information regarding the biological mechanisms in living systems. Despite fluorescence analysis has advanced remarkably, conventional detections still encounter considerable limitations. This stems from the fact that the fluorescence intensity signal (I) is sensitive and liable to numerous external factors including temperature, light source, medium characteristics, and dye concentration. The interferences exasperatingly undermine the precision of measurements, and frequently render the signal undetectable. For example, fluorescence from single-molecule emitters can be measured on glass substrates under optimum conditions, but single-molecule events in complicated physiological environments such as live cells can hardly be detected because of autofluorescence interference and other factors. Furthermore, traditional intensity (I) and wavelength (位) measurements do not reveal the interactive nature between the donor and the acceptor. Thus, innovative detection strategies to circumvent these aforementioned limitations of the conventional techniques are critically needed. With the use of photoswitching-induced donor鈥揳cceptor-fluorescence double modulations, we present a novel strategy that introduces three additional physical parameters: modulation amplitude (A), phase shift (螖桅), and lock-in frequency (蠅), and demonstrate that such a strategy can circumvent the limitation of the conventional fluorescence detection techniques. Together, these five physical quantities (I, 位, A, 螖桅, 蠅) reveal insightful information regarding molecular interactive strength between the probe and the analyte and enable extracting weak-fluorescence spectra from large interfering noises in complex environments.