Figure 4
Microsecond irradiation of Alexa 488 solution. Dose response plot of 10 mM Alexa in 10 mM phosphate buffer, pH 7, using the 106 µm × 164 µm focused beam at ALS beamline 5.3.1. A 200 µL volume of Alexa solution was passed through the 100 µm ID capillary tube on the sample mount at different speeds (Table 1) to obtain irradiation times in the range 15–120 µs. Fluorescence analysis was carried out as previously described (Gupta et al., 2007a). The solid line represents a single exponential fit with a rate constant k = 13764 s−1, with individual points representing the mean of three independent measurements with standard error. The inset shows the dose-response plot of the same sample using a larger beam to irradiate samples homogeneously inside a 535 µm ID capillary tube, with an exponential fit rate constant of k = 6410 s−1. |