Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Methods Mol Biol. 2024;2744:183-195. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3581-0_11.
Single-molecule multiplexed detection is a high-promise toolkit for the expanding field of biosensing and molecular diagnostics. Among many single-molecule techniques available today for biomarker sensing including fluorescence, force, electrochemical, spectroscopic, barcoding, and other techniques, fluorescence-based approaches are arguably the most widely used methods due to their high sensitivity, selectivity, and readily available fluorophore-labeling schemes for a wide variety of biomolecules. However, multiplexed imaging using fluorescence techniques has proven to be challenging due to the sophisticated labeling schemes often requiring multiple FRET (fluorescence resonance energy transfer) pairs and/or excitation sources, which lead to overlapping signals and complicate data analysis. Here, we describe a single-molecule FRET method that enables multiplexed analysis while still using only one FRET pair, and thus the described approach is a significant step forward from conventional FRET methods.
单分子多重检测是生物传感和分子诊断领域极具前景的工具包。在当今用于生物标志物传感的许多单分子技术中,包括荧光、力、电化学、光谱学、条形码和其他技术,基于荧光的方法无疑是最广泛使用的方法,因为它们具有高灵敏度、选择性以及广泛的生物分子易于进行荧光标记的方案。然而,由于复杂的标记方案通常需要多个 FRET(荧光共振能量转移)对和/或激发源,导致信号重叠并使数据分析复杂化,因此使用荧光技术进行多重成像已被证明具有挑战性。在这里,我们描述了一种单分子 FRET 方法,该方法能够在仍然只使用一对 FRET 的情况下进行多重分析,因此与传统的 FRET 方法相比,该方法是向前迈出的重要一步。