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Fast single-molecule FRET spectroscopy: theory and experiment
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Chung HS
; Gopich IV
Phys Chem Chem Phys
2014[Sep]; 16
(35
): 18644-57
PMID25088495
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Single-molecule spectroscopy is widely used to study macromolecular dynamics.
Although this technique provides unique information that cannot be obtained at
the ensemble level, the possibility of studying fast molecular dynamics is
limited by the number of photons detected per unit time (photon count rate),
which is proportional to the illumination intensity. However, simply increasing
the illumination intensity often does not help because of various photophysical
and photochemical problems. In this Perspective, we show how to improve the
dynamic range of single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy at a given photon
count rate by considering each and every photon and using a maximum likelihood
method. For a photon trajectory with recorded photon colors and inter-photon
times, the parameters of a model describing molecular dynamics are obtained by
maximizing the appropriate likelihood function. We discuss various likelihood
functions, their applicability, and the accuracy of the extracted parameters. The
maximum likelihood method has been applied to analyze the experiments on fast
two-state protein folding and to measure transition path times. Utilizing other
information such as fluorescence lifetimes is discussed in the framework of
two-dimensional FRET efficiency-lifetime histograms.