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Total Internal Reflection with Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy: Nonfluorescent Competitors

Alena M. Lieto ^*  and Nancy L. Thompson 

^* Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599

Correspondence: Address reprint requests to Nancy L. Thompson, Tel.: 919-962-0328; Fax: 919-966-3675; E-mail: nlt{at}unc.edu.

Total internal reflection with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy is a method for measuring the surface association/dissociation rate constants and absolute densities of fluorescent molecules at the interface of a planar substrate and solution. This method can also report the apparent diffusion coefficient and absolute concentration of fluorescent molecules very close to the surface. Theoretical expressions for the fluorescence fluctuation autocorrelation function when both surface association/dissociation kinetics and diffusion through the evanescent wave, in solution, contribute to the fluorescence fluctuations have been published previously. In the work described here, the nature of the autocorrelation function when both surface association/dissociation kinetics and diffusion through the evanescent wave contribute to the fluorescence fluctuations, and when fluorescent and nonfluorescent molecules compete for surface binding sites, is described. The autocorrelation function depends in general on the kinetic association and dissociation rate constants of the fluorescent and nonfluorescent molecules, the surface site density, the concentrations of fluorescent and nonfluorescent molecules in solution, the solution diffusion coefficients of the two chemical species, the depth of the evanescent field, and the size of the observed area on the surface. Both general and approximate expressions are presented.

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