Nicolaou, N; Marsh, RJ; Blacker, T; Armoogum, DA; Bain, AJ; (2009) Time-resolved fluorescence and FCS studies of dye-doped DNA. Proceedings of SPIE , 7393 , Article 73930L. 10.1117/12.826043.

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Abstract

Fluorescence lifetime, anisotropy and intensity dependent single molecule fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (I-FCS) are used to investigate the mechanism of fluorescence saturation in a free and nucleotide bound fluorophore (NR6104) in an antioxidising ascorbate buffer. Nucleotide attachment does not appreciably affect the fluorescence lifetime of the probe and there is a decrease in the rate of intersystem crossing relative to that of triplet state deactivation. The triplet state fraction is seen to plateau at 72% (G-attached) and 80% (free fluorophore) in agreement with these observations. Measurements of translational diffusion times show no intensity dependence for excitation intensities between 1 and 105kW cm-2 and photobleaching is therefore negligible. The dominant mechanism of fluorescence saturation is thus triplet state formation. I-FCS measurements for Rhodamine 6G in water were compared with those in the ascorbate buffer. In water the triplet fraction was saturated at considerably higher powers (45% at ca. 1.5 × 103kW cm-2) than in the ascorbate buffer (55%ca. 1 1kW cm-2).

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