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Dear Joost,

You said: "If I read you mail correctly you are doing Strip bleaching
experiments and then the difussion constant should be one dimensional when
using single photon excitation."

Just wanted to add: yes, but generally only for low NA lenses (uniform
cylindrical bleach), unless your sample is very thin of course.

Best regards,

Kevin

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Willemse, Joost
Verzonden: vrijdag 26 november 2004 9:09
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Onderwerp: Re: FRAP experiments


I think as already stated before in this discussion that as long as your
bleaching phase is short in comparison to the half time of recovery you
observe (e.g. < 5%) that the measurements can be quite good.
 
If I read you mail correctly you are doing Strip bleaching experiments and
then the difussion constant should be one dimensional when using single
photon excitation.
 
So the question is now what is your half time of diffusion in comparison to
the time interval. I am doing FRAP experiments myself on Histone 2B and then
multiple bleach itterations are usefull since they are always very short in
comparison to the half time of diffusion (0,5 s against 400s) But for
bleaching studies with for example free GFP you should use only one
itteration in principle.
 
In response to James Pawley, it is true damage can be caused but only when
using very high laser power with numerous itterations so as long as you can
prove your cells are still viable after the experiment do not worry about
that too much.
 
Joost willemse 
Dept. Molecular Biology
Wageningen University and Research Centre
Dreienlaan 3  
6703 HA Wageningen

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        >
        > Next to this I have questions on Jammi and Kevin:
        > 1) what confocal do you use?
        > 2) do you know your switching time between bleaching- and recovery
phase?
        > 3) what FRAP model do you use?
        > 4) what parameters do you take into acount in your model?
        > And probably there will be many many more questions....
        >
	
	
        Hi Guido,
        1) I am right now performing my FRAP experiments on  a LEICA SP2
AOBS
        confocal
        2) I am doing my bleaching and recovery in the FLY mode...so it's a
        bidirectional scan..my time interval between scans is about 200
millisecs.
        3 and 4) As for the FRAP model, I have been using a 1 dimensional
lateral
        diffusion model (although I am not sure this is what i have/need to
use)
	
        -Jammi
        p.s thanks Kevin and the others for all your input..
        happy turkey day all!