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ArticleBiophysical journal2018

Measurement of Mesoscale Conformational Dynamics of Freely Diffusing Molecules with Tracking FCS.

Charles Limouse, Jason C Bell, Colin J Fuller, Aaron F Straight, Hideo Mabuchi

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Charles LimouseDepartment of Applied Physics.
Jason C BellDepartment of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Colin J FullerDepartment of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Aaron F StraightDepartment of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California. Electronic address: astraigh@stanford.edu.
Hideo MabuchiDepartment of Applied Physics. Electronic address: hmabuchi@stanford.edu.

Funding

Mechanisms of Kinetochore AssemblyR01GM074728 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Aaron F Straight · 2005 to 2026
$6.6M
CTCF dependent chromatin looping dynamicsR01GM106005 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI MABUCHI, HIDEO, STRAIGHT, AARON F · 2013 to 2016
$1.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM074728NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM106005
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Few techniques are suited to probe the structure and dynamics of molecular complexes at the mesoscale level (∼100-1000 nm). We have developed a single-molecule technique that uses tracking fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (tFCS) to probe the conformation and dynamics of mesoscale molecular assemblies. tFCS measures the distance fluctuations between two fluorescently labeled sites within an untethered, freely diffusing biomolecule. To achieve subdiffraction spatial resolution, we developed a feedback scheme that allows us to maintain the molecule at an optimal position within the laser intensity gradient for fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. We characterized tFCS spatial sensitivity by measuring the Brownian end-to-end dynamics of DNA molecules as short as 1000 bp. We demonstrate that tFCS detects changes in the compaction of reconstituted nucleosome arrays and can assay transient protein-mediated interactions between distant sites in an individual DNA molecule. Our measurements highlight the applicability of tFCS to a wide variety of biochemical processes involving mesoscale conformational dynamics.

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DiffusionSpectrometry, FluorescenceDNANucleic Acid ConformationDNA

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PMID29642025
PMCPMC5954409

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