INVESTIGATIONS OF MONOLAYERS BY FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY

The technique of fluorescence microscopy enables imaging of coexisting domains in Langmuir monolayers which have been doped with a small amo unt of a fluorescent probe. It is also possible to image surface aggre gates formed by labeled proteins interacting with phospholipid monolay ers. The method has provided information concerning phase behavior and structure of monolayers and proven useful in the study of monolayers as model systems of membrane processes, (C) 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.