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Enhanced Emission Induced by FRET from a Long-Lifetime, Low Quantum Yield Donor to a Long-Wavelength, High Quantum Yield Acceptor

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We report observation of high quantum yield, long-lifetime fluorescence from a red dye BO-PRO-3 excited by resonance energy transfer (RET). The acceptor fluorescence was highly enhanced upon binding to the donor-labeled DNA. A ruthenium complex (Ru) was chosen as a donor in this system because of its long fluorescence lifetime. Both donor and acceptor were non-covalently bound to DNA. Emission from the donor-acceptor system (DA) at wavelengths exceeding 600 nm still preserves the long-lifetime component of the Ru donor, retaining average fluorescence lifetimes in the range of 30–50 ns. Despite the low quantum yield of the Ru donor in the absence of acceptor, its overall quantum yield of the DA pair was increased by energy transfer to the higher quantum yield acceptor BO-PRO-3. The wavelength-integrated intensity of donor and acceptor bound to DNA was many-fold greater than the intensity of the donor and acceptor separately bound to DNA. The origin of this effect is due to an efficient energy transfer from the donor, competing with non-radiative depopulation of the donor excited state. The distinctive features of DA complexes can be used in the development of a new class of engineered luminophores that display both long lifetime and long-wavelength emission. Similar DA complexes can be applied as proximity indicators, exhibiting strong fluorescence of adjacently located donors and acceptors over the relatively weak fluorescence of separated donors and acceptors.

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  1. Department of Oral Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Dentistry, Pusan National University, Pusan, 602-739, Korea

    Jung Sook Kang

  2. Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Gdańsk, ul. Wita Stwosza 57, 80-952, Gdańsk, Poland

    Grzegorz Piszczek

  3. Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland at Baltimore, 725 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD, 21201

    Joseph R. Lakowicz

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Kang, J.S., Piszczek, G. & Lakowicz, J.R. Enhanced Emission Induced by FRET from a Long-Lifetime, Low Quantum Yield Donor to a Long-Wavelength, High Quantum Yield Acceptor. Journal of Fluorescence 12, 97–103 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015375622992

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