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fluorescence polarization anisotropy

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stable receptor-ligand complex has a large molecular mass

the complex tumbles and rotates very slowly in solution

when this complex is excited with polarized laser light, most of the fluorescing molecules emit light with a very similar polarization

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high throughput screening (HTS) definition

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competitive binding assay measured by fluorescence polarization anisotropy

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high throughput screening (HTS)

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if the compound is capable of binding more strongly to the receptor, the labelled ligand will be forced out

fluorescently labelled ligand is diffusing and rotating freely in the solution

its rotational diffusion is faster

most photons are now emitted with an arbitrary, very different polarization

by measuring this different polarization, the binding constant of each chemical compound can be determined very accurately

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Absorption spectroscopy

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determination of concentration of certain biomolecules

determining DNA purity

measuring oxygen saturation in blood

measuring cooperativity of hemoglobin

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Intrinsic fluorescence spectroscopy

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identification of the presence of fluorescing or fluorescently labelled biomolecules

Determination of metabolic activity from NADPH-fluorescence

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fluorescence labelling

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identification of labelled biomolecules in complex biological environments

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FPA (fluorescence polarization anisotropy)

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determining binding processes or other processes that can affect the rotational diffusion of labelled species

Receptor-ligand binding

molecular mass estimate

enzyme kinetics

enzyme inhibition

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Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET)

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determining binding processes, conformational transitions, and biomolecular distances

Receptor-ligand binding

conformation changes in DNA

determining distances during protein unfolding

membrane fusion

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Fluorescence kinetics

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sensing changes in the environmental polarity of biomolecules or other processes that can affect the excited state lifetime of fluorescence markers

detecting FRET or FPA via fluorescence kinetics

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Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching

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membrane diffusion

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Biochemiluminescence

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monitoring ATP concentrations

monitoring protein expression

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Circular dichroism (CD), optical rotation dispersion

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determination of amount of secondary structure elements in proteins

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Light scattering

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determination of molecular mass of biomolecules

aggregation and shape of biological objects

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vibrational spectroscopy (infrared / Raman spectroscopy)

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determination of secondary structure elements

label-free identification of chemical composition

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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)

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structure determination under physiological conditions

determination of structural flexibility of biomolecules

label-free observation of biomolecular processes

comparison of NMR structure of insulin and severin with X-ray structure

flexibility of severin structure under physiological conditions

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Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)

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observation of redox reactions in photosynthesis or haemoglobin

determination of rotational diffusion using spin labels

determination of membrane structure and dynamics

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Mass spectrometry

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identifying biomolecules from mixtures

determining biomolecular structures from fragments

peptide sequencing

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Fluorescence microscopy

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imaging of labelled proteins in a whole cell context

real-time imaging of biological processes

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Light

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a wave of oscillating electric and magnetic fields propagating through space

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Light field components

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The electric and magnetic field components of electromagnetic radiation are oscillating in phase perpendicular to the propagation direction and with respect to each other

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The smallest possible unit of light is…

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photons

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Photons

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smallest possible unit of light and have particle-light and wave-light character

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equation for energy including frequency or wavelength

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E = hv = hc / wavelength, E = hr, v = 1 / wavelength

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h variable

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Planck’s constant

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The energy of a photon is....
linear proportional to the frequency v and wave number
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The wavelength of a photon is...
inversely proportional to the energy
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UV is important for...
the characterization of proteins and DNA
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The visible region of light is important for...
most fluorescence techniques
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Infrared region is important for...
the identification and investigation of biomolecules based on their characteristic molecular vibrations
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Radio-waves and microwaves are used for...
nuclear and magnetic resonance techniques
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If a molecular possesses a suitable electronic structure...
it can absorb a photon of a specific wavelength, resulting in an electronic structure rearrangement
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During the absorption of a photon...
the electronic structure of the molecules is usually transferred from an electronic ground state into an energetically higher electronic excited state
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Only photons having __________ corresponding to _________ can be absorbed by the molecules
energies the energy difference between these electronic states
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electrons display...
wave-light properties
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In phase
the two lines make a big squiggly line
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out of phase
the two lines make a straight line
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Molecular orbitals
the possible wave functions for single electrons in the presence of several nuclei
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An orbital can only be occupies by...
a maximum of two electrons with opposite spins
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If two atomic s-orbitals with opposite signs (out of phase) are combined, they form...
an antibonding molecular sigma orbital
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Electrons in antibonding have...
higher energies
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antibonding orbitals can lead to...
bond breakage
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the energy of the newly formed molecular orbitals...
increases with the number of nodal planes
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electrons from the original p-orbitals are filled into molecular orbitals, starting with...
the lowest energy orbitals and obeying the rule that only a maximum of two electrons are allowed per molecular orbital
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HOMO
highest occupied molecular orbital
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LUMO
lowest unoccupied molecular orbital
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The electronic ground state corresponds to the situation...
that all orbitals up to the HOMO electrons are occupied by two electrons
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The first excited state corresponds to the situation...
that one electron has been promoted from the HOMO to the LUMO
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The electronic ground state and the first possible electronically excited state of molecules are often referred to as...
S0 and S1 states
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The absorption band observed for the longest wavelength (lowest photon energy), corresponds to...
the absorption of photons having energies corresponding to transitions from the electronic ground state to the first possible electronically excited state (S0 - S1)
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absorption spectrum
describes the frequency or wavelength dependence of the probability that a molecule absorbs photons of the corresponding photon energy
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The absorption band observed for the longest wavelength corresponds to...
the absorption of photons having energies corresponding to transitions from the electronic ground state to the first possible electronically excited state
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The absorption band observed for the lowest photon energy corresponds to...
the absorption of photons having energies corresponding to transitions from the electronic ground state to the first possible electronically excited state
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The bands observed at shorter wavelengths correspond to
transitions in which vibrations of the nuclei in the molecules are excited in addition to the pure electronic excitation
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The bands observed at higher photon energies corresponds to
transitions in which vibrations of the nuclei in the molecules are excited in addition to the pure electronic excitation
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Vibrational ground state is defined as
v = 0
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Frank-Condon principle
In the first molecule, the equilibrium positions of the atoms in the excited state are very similar to those in the S0 state No vibrations are induced by the electronic transition, and the molecule is preferentially excited into the vibrational ground state of the S1 state In the absorption spectrum, the band corresponding to this transition dominates
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Vibrational relaxation
quick release of the entire vibrational excess energy in the S1 state to the surrounding
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What indicates rapid vibrational relaxation?
green wavy arrows
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The final result of fast vibrational relaxation is...
that the molecule is now in the lowest vibrational state of the electronic excited state
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The probability of fluorescence is proportional to the...
transition dipole moment
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The fluorescence spectrum has a ...
mirror image like shape in comparison to the absorption spectrum
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0-0 transitions
the absorption and fluorescence bands with the largest and smallest wavelengths define the 0-0 transitions
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In the fluorescence spectrum, the _______ dominates
the vibrational band
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Absorption and fluorescence v values
S0, v = 0, S1, v = 0
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Stokes shift
the general observation that emitted photons have longer wavelengths than the absorbed photons
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If the energy gap between the s1 state and the s0 state is large
fluorescence dominates and the de-excitation of the moleces
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If the energy gap becomes smaller
nonradiative de-excitation of the s1 state often becomes dominant
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the smaller the energy gap between s1 and s0
the higher the chance that there is a good overlap between the vibrational ground state wave function of the s1 state with wave functions of highly excited vibrations in the electronic ground state
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Internal conversion
the molecule can switch from the electronic excited state into the electronic ground state without the emission of a photon
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Kasha's rule
fluorescence occurs from the lowest electronically excited state in its lowest vibrational state
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Pauli rule
no electron in a molecule can have the exact same properties as another electron in the molecule
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An orbital can be occupied by two electrons only if...
they have different spins
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Triplet states
electronic states with two unpaired electrons of the same spin
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Triplet states are _________ compared to respective singlet states
lower in energy
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Intersystem crossing
the crossing from singlet to triplet
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Intersystem crossing is...
favored when a good overlap exists between vibrational wave functions of the excited S1 state, with vibrational wave functions of the T1 state
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Phosphorescence
radiative relaxation from the triplet state
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Phosphorescence and intersystem crossing require a...
spin flip
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0-0 transitions are the ______ when on a graph
right between the absorption last peak and the fluorescence first peak (where the mirror image begins)
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Similar to fluorescence, the phosphorescence spectrum often appears to be a ....
mirror image of the ground-state absorption because the vibrational modes are often very similar in all electronic states
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Jablonski diagram
only energy levels of the electronic states are depicted as horizontal lines all radiative processes are depicted using straight arrows (absorption or emission of a photon) nonradiative processes are portrayed using wavy arrows
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rate constant is proportional to
the probability per time unit that the corresponding process occurs
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The fluorescence quantum efficiency is
the number of photons emitted by a molecule as fluorescence divided by the number of photons that were previously absorbed by the moleucle
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Fluorescence quantum efficiency equation
number of photons emitted as fluorescence / number of absorbed photons
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quantum efficiency of any process is defined as
the number of quanta undergoing the process divided by the number of absorbed photons or quanta originally present in the initial state from which this process occurs
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quantum efficiency is a direct measure of
the probability of certain processes in a molecule
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the quantum efficiency of a process can be calculated by
dividing the rate constant of the process of interest by the sum of the rate constants of all processes simultaneously depopulating the initial state
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to calculate the phosphorescence quantum yield
you have to multiply the quantum yield for s1 - t1 intersystem crossing by the probability for radiative emission from the triplet state
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the sum of all radiative and nonradiative processes...
must be one
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time constant
inverse of its corresponding rate constant
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the absorption of a compound for a certain wavelength can be evaluated by..
a comparison between the light intensity measures after the sample cell and the light intensity measured after the reference cell
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wavelength-dependent transmission equation
T (wavelength) = light intensity after sample cell / light intensity after reference cell
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the reduction of the light intensity is...
proportional to the concentration of the absorbing compound and the length of the sample cell
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Beer-Lambert Law
log (light intensity reference cell / light intensity sample cell) = the molar absorption * concentration * total optical path length of the light through the sample cell
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The absorption of a compound at a given compound is defined as
A = ECL
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the molar absorption coefficient is proportional to
the corresponding electronic transition dipole moment
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Transition-dipole moment describes
the magnitude of absorption
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The Franck-Condon integral descibres
which wavelength will result in absorption maxima
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the fluorescence intensity is proportional to
the concentration of the compound
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proteins and peptides show ___________
unspecific absorptions at wavelengths below 240nm
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which amino acids have distinctive absorbance and fluorescence properties
tryptophan, tyrosine, and phenylalanine
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Redshifts
shifts of absorption or fluorescence bands towards longer wavelengths (blueshifts are the opposite)
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DNA and RNA both have _______ that show ______
conjugates pi electron systems significant absorption around 260nm
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pure DNA value is
1.8
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pure RNA value is
2.0
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when you want to run a blank sample on the spectrophotometer, you should use
whatever your sample is dissolved into
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easy way to remember Beer's law
A = ECL
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haem is a cofactor for
protein hemogloblin, which is responsible for the transportaion of oxygen in red blood cells
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the absorption change between _____________ is used for _______
hemoglobin and oxyhemoglobin determine the oxygen saturation in a patient's blood
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flavins
an important class of cofactors that dominate the optical signals from cells

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