Motor Function of the Two-Component EEA1-Rab5 Revealed by dcFCCS.

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) enables the measurement of fluctuations at fast timescales (typically few nanoseconds) and with high spatial resolution (tens of nanometers). This single-molecule measurement has been used to characterize single-molecule transport and flexibility of polymers and biomolecules such as DNA and RNA. Here, we apply this technique as dual-color fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy (dcFCCS) to identify the motor function of the tethering protein EEA1 and the small GTPase Rab5 by probing the flexibility changes through end-monomer fluctuations.