Web Release Date: January 27,
Surfaces and Orientations: Much to FRET about?

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Physics Department and Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
Received August 17, 2004
Abstract:
Single molecule FRET (fluorescence resonance energy transfer) is a powerful technique for detecting real-time conformational changes and molecular interactions during biological reactions. In this Account, we examine different techniques of extending observation times via immobilization and illustrate how useful biological information can be obtained from single molecule FRET time trajectories with or without absolute distance information.
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