Seminar by Prof. Tahei Tahara on "Novel single-molecule spectroscopy: microsecond structural dynamics of protein, DNA and RNA revealed by two -dimensional fluorescence lifetime correlatispectroscopy (2D-FLCS)"
09 Jan 2018
Seminar Room #350
Seminar by Prof. Tahei Tahara on "Novel single-molecule spectroscopy: microsecond structural dynamics of protein, DNA and RNA revealed by two -dimensional fluorescence lifetime correlatispectroscopy (2D-FLCS)"
Abstract
Single-molecule spectroscopy, combined with fluorescence resonance energy
transfer, is utilized to study the conformational heterogeneity and the
state-to-state transition dynamics of protein, DNA and RNA on the
submillisecond to second timescales. However, observation of the dynamics
on the microsecond timescale is still very challenging. This timescale is
important because the elementary processes of structural dynamics of such
biopolymer take place and direct comparison between experiment and
simulation is possible. In this lecture, I talk about a new
single-molecule technique which enables observation of the microsecond
structural dynamics of bio-macromolecules through correlation of the
fluorescence lifetime. This method, which we named two-dimensional
fluorescence lifetime correlation spectroscopy (2D-FLCS), has been applied
particularly to clarify the conformational dynamics of proteins, and
conformational ensembles and the microsecond transitions in each ensemble
are indicated, demonstrating the importance of quantifying microsecond
dynamics of proteins on the folding free energy landscape.
