Abstract
As the other chapters attest, sensitivity of fluorescent molecules to their local environment has created powerful tools in the study of molecular biology, particularly in the study of protein, DNA, and lipid dynamics. Surprisingly, even events faster than the nanosecond lifetimes of fluorophores are important in protein function, and in particular, events lasting just a few ps reflect on water motion and the coupled dynamics of proteins. These ultrafast phenomena can best be studied by using the same laser that excites fluorescence to also “strobe” the emission, providing sub-picosecond time slices of the action. We explain the strobing “upconversion” technique and some limits on its execution.
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Biesso, A., Xu, J., Knutson, J.R. (2014). Upconversion Spectrophotofluorometry. In: Engelborghs, Y., Visser, A. (eds) Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Microscopy. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1076. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-649-8_12
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