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Title: | Visualization of membrane rafts using a perylene monoimide derivative and fluorescence lifetime Imaging | Authors: | Margineanu, Anca Hotta, Jun-Ichi Van der Auweraer, Mark AMELOOT, Marcel Stefan, Alina Beljonne, David Engelborghs, Yves Herrmann, Andreas Muellen, Klaus De Schryver, Frans C. Hofkens, Johan |
Issue Date: | 2007 | Publisher: | BIOPHYSICAL SOC | Source: | BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL, 93(8). p. 2877-2891 | Abstract: | A new membrane probe, based on the perylene imide chromophore, with excellent photophysical properties ( high absorption coefficient, quantum yield (QY) approximate to 1, high photostability) and excited in the visible domain is proposed for the study of membrane rafts. Visualization of separation between the liquid-ordered (Lo) and the liquid-disordered (Ld) phases can be achieved in artificial membranes by fluorescence lifetime imaging due to the different decay times of the membrane probe in the two phases. Rafts on micrometer-scale in cell membranes due to cellular activation can also be observed by this method. The decay time of the dye in the Lo phase is higher than in organic solvents where its QY is 1. This allows proposing a ( possible general) mechanism for the decay time increase in the Lo phase, based on the local field effects of the surrounding molecules. For other fluorophores with QY < 1, the suggested mechanism could also contribute, in addition to effects reducing the non-radiative decay pathways, to an increase of the fluorescence decay time in the Lo phase. | Notes: | Katholieke Univ Leuven, Lab Photochem & Spectroscopy, Louvain, Belgium. Hasselt Univ, Biomed Res Inst, Diepenbeek, Belgium. Transnatl Univ Limburg, Diepenbeek, Belgium. Univ Mons, Lab Chem Novel Mat, B-7000 Mons, Belgium. Katholieke Univ Leuven, Lab Biomol Dynam, Louvain, Belgium. Max Planck Inst Polymer Res, Mainz, Germany.Hofkens, J, Katholieke Univ Leuven, Lab Photochem & Spectroscopy, Louvain, Belgium.johan.hofkens@chem.kuleuven.be | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/4147 | Link to publication/dataset: | http://www.biophysj.org/cgi/content/abstract/biophysj.106.100743v1 | ISSN: | 0006-3495 | e-ISSN: | 1542-0086 | ISI #: | 000249632300029 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2008 |
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