Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201200032
Title: Calibration and limits of camera-based fluorescence correlation spectroscopy: A supported lipid bilayer study
Authors: Bag, N.
Sankaran, J.
Paul, A.
Kraut, R.S.
Wohland, T. 
Keywords: fluorescence spectroscopy
membrane
multiplexing
point spread function
total internal reflection
Issue Date: 6-Aug-2012
Citation: Bag, N., Sankaran, J., Paul, A., Kraut, R.S., Wohland, T. (2012-08-06). Calibration and limits of camera-based fluorescence correlation spectroscopy: A supported lipid bilayer study. ChemPhysChem 13 (11) : 2784-2794. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201200032
Abstract: Camera-based fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) approaches allow the measurement of thousands of contiguous points yielding excellent statistics and details of sample structure. Imaging total internal reflection FCS (ITIR-FCS) provides these measurements on lipid membranes. Herein, we determine the influence of the point spread function (PSF) of the optical system, the laser power used, and the time resolution of the camera on the accuracy of diffusion coefficient and concentration measurements. We demonstrate that the PSF can be accurately determined by ITIR-FCS and that the laser power and time resolution can be varied over a wide range with limited influence on the measurement of the diffusion coefficient whereas the concentration measurements are sensitive to changes in the measurement parameters. One advantage of ITIR-FCS is that the measurement of the PSF has to be performed only once for a given optical setup, in contrast to confocal FCS in which calibrations have to be performed at least once per measurement day. Using optimized experimental conditions we provide diffusion coefficients for over ten different lipid membranes consisting of one, two and three constituents, measured in over 200000 individual correlation functions. Using software binning and thus the inherent advantage of ITIR-FCS of providing multiple observation areas in a single measurement we test the FCS diffusion law and show how they can be complemented by the local information provided by the difference in cross-correlation functions (ΔCCF). With the determination of the PSF by ITIR-FCS and the optimization of measurement conditions ITIR-FCS becomes a calibration-free method. This allows us to provide measurements of absolute diffusion coefficients for bilayers with different compositions, which were stable over many different bilayer preparations over a time of at least one year, using a single PSF calibration. A new method to determine the point spread function (PSF, see picture) based on the autocorrelation functions obtained from camera-based fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) measurements is proposed. Using this correct value for the PSF, the authors report diffusion coefficients of a number of supported lipid bilayers on glass, demonstrate the spatial organization of these model membranes, and provide limits on the laser power and time resolution in camera-based FCS. Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
Source Title: ChemPhysChem
URI: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/100208
ISSN: 14394235
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201200032
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