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SUBMITTER: Munoz-Losa A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2712028 | biostudies-other | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Muñoz-Losa Aurora A Curutchet Carles C Krueger Brent P BP Hartsell Lydia R LR Mennucci Benedetta B
Biophysical journal 20090601 12
With recent growth in the use of fluorescence-detected resonance energy transfer (FRET), it is being applied to complex systems in modern and diverse ways where it is not always clear that the common approximations required for analysis are applicable. For instance, the ideal dipole approximation (IDA), which is implicit in the Förster equation, is known to break down when molecules get "too close" to each other. Yet, no clear definition exists of what is meant by "too close". Here we examine se ...[more]