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    • Single-molecule photobleaching: Instrumentation and applications

      SIMLI DEY SUDIPTA MAITI

      Article Volume 43 Issue 3 July 2018 pp 447-454

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    • Keywords

       

      Total internal reflection fluorescence; TIRF; oligomer detection; protein aggregation

    • Abstract

       

      Single-molecule photobleaching (smPB) technique is a powerful tool for characterizing molecular assemblies. It canprovide a direct measure of the number of monomers constituting a given oligomeric particle and generate the oligomer sizedistribution in a specimen. A major current application of this technique is in understanding protein aggregation, which islinked to many incurable diseases. Quantitative measurement of the size distribution of an aggregating protein in aphysiological solution remains a difficult task, since techniques such as dynamic light scattering or fluorescence correlationspectroscopy (FCS) can provide an average size, but cannot accurately resolve the underlying size distribution. Here wedescribe the smPB method as implemented on a home-built total internal reflection fluorescence microscope (TIRF). Wefirst describe the construction of a TIRF microscope, and then demonstrate the power of smPB by characterizing a solutionof Amylin (hIAPP) oligomers, a 37-residue peptide whose aggregation is associated with Type II diabetes. We compare ourresults with FCS data obtained from the same specimen, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the twotechniques.

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      SIMLI DEY1 SUDIPTA MAITI1

      1. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400 005, India

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      Published
      1 July 2018

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