Long time scale blinking kinetics of cyanine fluorophores conjugated to DNA and its effect on Förster resonance energy transfer
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Abstract
The blinking kinetics of individual Cy5 fluorophores conjugated to DNA are directly measured using single-molecule spectroscopy. Under deoxygenated aqueous conditions, Cy5 fluorescence exhibits spontaneous and reversible on/off fluctuations with a period lasting seconds. This blinking is observed when directly exciting Cy5 with 640 nm light and by Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET). We find that Cy5 blinking is influenced by the proximity of the donor, the structure of the donor, the presence of 514 nm excitation, and FRET. In the context of single-molecule FRET, blinking of the acceptor produces anticorrelated donor-acceptor intensity fluctuations, which can be difficult to discern from variations in the interdye distance. Slow blinking is, in particular, problematic because it overlaps with biologically relevant time scales. By employing an alternating 514640 nm laser excitation scheme, we show that the dark states can be readily resolved and discriminated from FRET distance fluctuations.
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