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Single-molecule Detection of Ultrafast Biomolecular Dynamics with Nanophotonics

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Single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a versatile technique for probing the structure and dynamics of biomolecules even in heterogeneous ensembles. However, due to the limited fluorescence brightness per molecule and the relatively long fluorescence lifetimes, probing ultrafast structural dynamics in the nanosecond timescale has thus far been very challenging. Here we demonstrate that nanophotonic fluorescence enhancement in zero-mode waveguides enables measurements of previously inaccessible low-nanosecond dynamics by dramatically improving time resolution and reduces data acquisition times by more than an order of magnitude. As a prototypical example, we use this approach to probe the dynamics of a short intrinsically disordered peptide that were previously inaccessible with single-molecule FRET measurements. We show that we are now able to detect the low-nanosecond correlations in this peptide, and we obtain a detailed interpretation of the underlying distance distributions and dynamics in conjunction with all-atom molecular dynamics simulations, which agree remarkably well with the experiments. We expect this combined approach to be widely applicable to the investigation of very rapid biomolecular dynamics.
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hal-03547320 , version 1 (28-01-2022)

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Mark F Nüesch, Miloš T Ivanović, Jean-Benoît Claude, Daniel Nettels, Robert B Best, et al.. Single-molecule Detection of Ultrafast Biomolecular Dynamics with Nanophotonics. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022, 144 (1), pp.52-56. ⟨10.1021/jacs.1c09387⟩. ⟨hal-03547320⟩
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