Fluorescence energy transfer homogeneous time-resolved

Fluorescence-based detection methods are the most commonly used readouts for HTS as these readouts are sensitive, usually homogeneous and can be readily miniaturised, even down to the single molecule level.7,8 Fluorescent signals can be detected by methods such as fluorescence intensity (FI), fluorescence polarisation (FP) or anisotropy (FA), fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer (TR-FRET) and fluorescence intensity life time (FLIM). Confocal single molecule techniques such as fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) and one- or two-dimensional fluorescence intensity distribution analysis (ID FID A, 2D FIDA) have been reported but are not commonly used. 

Maurel, D., Kniazeff, J., Mathis, G., Trinquet, E., Pin, J. P. and Ansanay, FI. (2004). Cell surface detection of membrane protein interaction with homogeneous time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer technology. Anal. Biochem. 329, 253-62. 

Wang, G., J. Yuan, K. Matsumoto, et al. 2001. Homogeneous time-resolved fluoroimmunoassay of bensulfuron-methyl by using terbium fluorescence energy transfer. Talanta 55 1119-1125. 

A study at Novartis compared hits obtained by screening 30,000 compounds for tyrosine kinase activity in three different assays a scintillation proximity assay (SPA), a homogeneous time-resolved fluorescence energy transfer assay (HT-FRET), and a fluorescence polarization (FP) assay.Library compounds were screened as mixtures of five in a well, which meant that after active wells were identified, the five constituents would be deconvoluted by screening each compound individually or using other methods to establish which of the compounds was active. " When this was done SPA, HT-FRET, and FP turned up 30, 59, and 64 hits respectively. A low degree of overlap was observed between the sets. Only four or seven compounds, depending on where the activity bars were set, would have been identified... 

Bazin, H. Preaudat. E. Trinquet, E. Mathis. G. Homogeneous time resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer using rare earth cryptates as a tool for probing molecular interactions in biology. Spectrochim. Acta. Part A 2001. 57. 2197-2211. 

Stenroos K, Hurskainen P, Eriksson S et al (1998) Homogeneous time-resolved 1L-2-IL-2R alpha assay using fluorescence resonance energy transfer. Cytokine 10 495 99... 

Laitala V, Hemmila L. Homogeneous assay based on low quan- 83. turn yield Sm(lll)-donor and anti-Stokes shift time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy-transfer measurement. Analyt. Chim. 

Polymers are not homogeneous in a microscopic scale and a number of perturbed states for a dye molecule are expected. As a matter of fact, non-exponential decay of luminescence in polymer systems is a common phenomenon. For some reaction processes (e.g, excimer and exciplex formation), one tries to fit the decay curve to sums of two or three exponential terms, since this kind of functional form is predicted by kinetic models. Here one has to worry about the uniqueness of the fit and the reliability of the parameters. Other processes can not be analyzed in this way. Examples include transient effects in diffusion-controlled processes, energy transfer in rigid matrices, and processes which occur in a distribution of different environments, each with its own characteristic rate. This third example is quite common when solvent relaxation about polar excited states occurs on the same time scale as emission from those states. Careful measurement of time-resolved fluorescence spectra is an approach to this problem. These problems and many others are treated in detail in recent books (9,11), including various aspects of data analysis. 

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