Diffusion Measurements of Swimming Enzymes with Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy

Accounts of Chemical Research
Jan-Philipp GüntherPeer Fischer

Abstract

Self-propelled chemical motors are chemically powered micro- or nanosized swimmers. The energy required for these motors' active motion derives from catalytic chemical reactions and the transformation of a fuel dissolved in the solution. While self-propulsion is now well established for larger particles, it is still unclear if enzymes, nature's nanometer-sized catalysts, are potentially also self-powered nanomotors. Because of its small size, any increase in an enzyme's diffusion due to active self-propulsion must be observed on top of the enzyme's passive Brownian motion, which dominates at this scale. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is a sensitive method to quantify the diffusion properties of single fluorescently labeled molecules in solution. FCS experiments have shown a general increase in the diffusion constant of a number of enzymes when the enzyme is catalytically active. Diffusion enhancements after addition of the enzyme's substrate (and sometimes its inhibitor) of up to 80% have been reported, which is at least 1 order of magnitude higher than what theory would predict. However, many factors contribute to the FCS signal and in particular the shape of the autocorrelation function, which underlies diffusion...Continue Reading

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