This article reviews the use of fluorescent probes to monitor the order and dynamics within
the acyl chain region of liposome lipid bilayers. Fluorescence anisotropy is first defined and …

This article reviews the properties and uses of one class of popular membrane “fluidity
probe”, namely molecules containing the fluorophore 1, 6-diphenyl-1, 3, 5-hexatriene (DPH) …

Molecular Fluorescence This second edition of the well-established bestseller is completely
updated and revised with approximately 30% additional material, including two new …

A comprehensive formalism is developed to describe the decay of the fluorescence
emission anisotropy r (t) in macroscopically isotropic systems where both excited state and …

Diphenyl-1, 3, 5-hexatriene (DPH) is one of the most commonly used fluorescent probes to
study dynamical and structural properties of lipid bilayers and cellular membranes via …

Publisher Summary Biological membranes generally contain considerable amounts of
highly unsaturated lipids and cholesterol. The regulation of the degree of phospholipid …

A new approach is presented for measuring the three-dimensional orientation of individual
macromolecules using single molecule fluorescence polarization (SMFP) microscopy. The …

The orientational distribution of chain segments or crystals in polymeric materials is most
conveniently described as a series expansion of rotation matrix elements. Rotation matrices …

Departments of Biochemistry and Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Urbana, Illinois 61801 Received January 27, 1986; Revised Manuscript Received …

Various models for the analysis of time-dependent fluorescence anisotropy measurements
were evaluated. The discussion was based on the analysis of pulsed experiments with 1, 6 …