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Determination of Equilibrium and Rate Constants for Complex Formation by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Supplemented by Dynamic Light Scattering and Taylor Dispersion Analysis

Determination of Equilibrium and Rate Constants for Complex Formation by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy Supplemented by Dynamic Light Scattering and Taylor Dispersion Analysis

Xuzhu Zhang, Andrzej Poniewierski, Aldona Jelińska, Anna Zagożdżon, Agnieszka Wisniewska, Sen Hou, Robert Hołyst

Soft Matter. 2016 Oct 4;12(39):8186-8194.

PMID: 27714379

Abstract:

The equilibrium and rate constants of molecular complex formation are of great interest both in the field of chemistry and biology. Here, we use fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), supplemented by dynamic light scattering (DLS) and Taylor dispersion analysis (TDA), to study the complex formation in model systems of dye-micelle interactions. In our case, dyes rhodamine 110 and ATTO-488 interact with three differently charged surfactant micelles: octaethylene glycol monododecyl ether C12E8 (neutral), cetyltrimethylammonium chloride CTAC (positive) and sodium dodecyl sulfate SDS (negative). To determine the rate constants for the dye-micelle complex formation we fit the experimental data obtained by FCS with a new form of the autocorrelation function, derived in the accompanying paper. Our results show that the association rate constants for the model systems are roughly two orders of magnitude smaller than those in the case of the diffusion-controlled limit. Because the complex stability is determined by the dissociation rate constant, a two-step reaction mechanism, including the diffusion-controlled and reaction-controlled rates, is used to explain the dye-micelle interaction. In the limit of fast reaction, we apply FCS to determine the equilibrium constant from the effective diffusion coefficient of the fluorescent components. Depending on the value of the equilibrium constant, we distinguish three types of interaction in the studied systems: weak, intermediate and strong. The values of the equilibrium constant obtained from the FCS and TDA experiments are very close to each other, which supports the theoretical model used to interpret the FCS data.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP13558311	Rhodamine 110 chloride		13558-31-1	Price

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