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Luminescence Resonance Energy Transfer to Study Conformational Changes in Membrane Proteins Expressed in Mammalian Cells
Published on: September 16, 2014
Luminescence anisotropy-based detection of nucleic acids and proteins using long-lifetime Ru(II) complex as a
Takashi Sakamoto1, Atsushi Mahara, Kobori Akio
1Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan.
Abstract:
Luminescence anisotropy-based methods are powerful tool for the detection of biomolecules in homogeneous physiological media without Bound/Free separation. However, analyses based on the method are always disturbed by the autofluorescence from biological specimen. This disturbance limits the sensitivity of the method. To improve the detection limit of the method, a long-lifetime luminophore was adopted as the label. Because of the lifetime of the autofluorescence is below 10 ns, it is expected that the use of the long-lifetime luminophore enables us to avoid the disturbance by adopting time-resolved luminescence anisotropy measurement. To verify this concept, oligodeoxyribonucleotides and Staphylococcus aureus protein A were labeled with Ru(II) complex (tau approximately 500 nsec) and used for the detection of Escherichia coli 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) and immunoglobulin G (IgG), respectively. Results indicated that the methods were useful for the detection of rRNA and IgG without disturbance of the autofluorescence.
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