Fluorescence lifetime correlation spectroscopic study of fluorophore-labeled silver nanoparticles.
In this paper, we introduce the use of fluorescence lifetime correlation spectroscopy to study the metal-fluorophore interactions in solution at the single-fluorophore level. A single-stranded oligonucleotide was chemically bound to a 50-nm-diameter single silver particle, and a Cy5-labeled complementary single-stranded oligonucleotide was hybridized with the silver particle-bound oligonucleotide. The distance between the fluorophore and silver particle was maintained by a rigid hybridized DNA duplex of 8 nm in length. The single Cy5-DNA-Ag particles showed more than 10-fold increase in fluorescence intensity and a 5-fold decrease in emission lifetimes as compared with Cy5-DNA free molecules in the absence of metal. The decrease of lifetime for the Cy5-DNA-Ag particle allowed us to resolve the correlation functions of the two species based on the intensity decays. The increased brightness of the Cy5-DNA-Ag particle as compared to free Cy5-DNA resulted in an increased contribution of Cy5-DNA-Ag to the correlation function of the mixture. These results show that the effects of metal particles on fluorophores can be used to detect the small fractional populations of the metal-bound species in the presence of a larger number of less bright species. Our results also suggest that these bright fluorophores conjugated to silver particles could be used as the fluorescent probes for clinical detection in the biological samples with the high background.
Ray
Krishanu
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Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 725 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA. krishanu@cfs.umbi.umd.edu
Zhang
Jian
J
Lakowicz
Joseph R
JR
D002232:Carbocyanines / Q000737:chemistry*; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry*; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D009841:Oligonucleotides / Q000737:chemistry*; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods*
D002232:Carbocyanines; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D009841:Oligonucleotides; C085321:cyanine dye 5; D012834:Silver; D004247:DNA
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