Haas E, Steinberg I Z
Biophys J. 1984 Oct;46(4):429-37. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(84)84040-0.
The fluorescence quantum yield of a polymer molecule to which an energy donor chromophore and an energy acceptor chromophore are attached depends on the distance between the donor and acceptor chromophores. If this distance fluctuates with time, the fluorescence intensity is expected to fluctuate as well, and the time course of the intensity fluctuations will be correlated with the time course of the changes in the interchromophore distance. The intensity fluctuations are experimentally measurable if the number of illuminated molecules is small. A theoretical treatment of such fluorescence intensity fluctuations is presented in terms of a parameter that describes the polymer chain dynamics. Computer simulations were performed to illustrate the dependence of the autocorrelation function of the intensity fluctuations on the polymer chain conformation, the interchromophore energy transfer properties, and the macromolecular dynamics. These simulations demonstrate that the intensity fluctuations due to nonradiative energy transfer between chromophores attached to polymer chains can be large enough to be experimentally useful in the study of intramolecular dynamics of macromolecules.
连接有能量供体发色团和能量受体发色团的聚合物分子的荧光量子产率取决于供体和受体发色团之间的距离。如果这个距离随时间波动,那么荧光强度预计也会波动,并且强度波动的时间进程将与发色团间距离变化的时间进程相关。如果被照射分子的数量较少,强度波动在实验上是可测量的。本文根据描述聚合物链动力学的一个参数,对这种荧光强度波动进行了理论处理。进行了计算机模拟,以说明强度波动的自相关函数对聚合物链构象、发色团间能量转移性质和大分子动力学的依赖性。这些模拟表明,连接在聚合物链上的发色团之间的非辐射能量转移引起的强度波动可能足够大,在研究大分子的分子内动力学方面具有实验用途。