Lévy statistics describe the photo-bleaching in well-defined ensembles of green fluorescent proteins
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Didier, P.; Bardou, F.; Guidoni, L.
- Source
- 2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on. :1-2 May, 2006
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fluorescence
Aging
Proteins
Dark states
Lighting
Stimulated emission
Evolution (biology)
(260.2510) Fluorescence
(000.5490) Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics
- Language
- ISSN
- 2160-9004
The aging of well-defined ensembles of fluorescent proteins displays clear signatures of Lévy statistics. A rate-equation model postulating thermally activated barriers allows us to retrieve physical information about the barrier distribution.