sucrose monoester micelles size determined by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (fcs)蔗糖单酯胶束大小取决于荧光相关光谱(fcs).pdfVIP

Sucrose Monoester Micelles Size Determined by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) 1,2 1 3 3 3 Susana A. Sanchez , Enrico Gratton , Antonio L. Zanocco , Else Lemp , German Gunther * ´ 1 Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, 2 Microscopy and Dynamic Imaging Unit, Fundacion ´ ´ ´ ´ Carlos-III-CNIC, Madrid, Spain, 3 Laboratorio de Cinetica y Fotoquımica, Facultad de Ciencias Quımicas y Farmaceuticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile Abstract One of the several uses of sucrose detergents, as well as other micelle forming detergents, is the solubilization of different membrane proteins. Accurate knowledge of the micelle properties, including size and shape, are needed to optimize the surfactant conditions for protein purification and membrane characterization. We synthesized sucrose esters having different numbers of methylene subunits on the substituent to correlate the number of methylene groups with the size of the corresponding micelles. We used Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) and two photon excitation to determine the translational D of the micelles and calculate their corresponding hydrodynamic radius, Rh. As a fluorescent probe we used LAURDAN (6-dodecanoyl-2-dimethylaminonaphthalene), a dye highly fluorescent when integrated in the micelle and non-fluorescen