“…Ti:Sapphire oscillator (Mai Tai DeepSee, Spectra Physics -80 MHz repetition rate, ≈ 70 fs pulse width) at 10-20 mW was used for two-photon excitation at 930 nm. Emitted photons were collected through a 680 nm short pass filter (F75-680, AHF, Germany) and a 525/50 nm band-pass filter (F37-516, AHF, Germany) and directed to a fibre-coupled avalanche photo-diode (SPCM-AQR-14-FC, Perkin Elmer) connected to a time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) module (SPC830, Becker & Hickl, Ger-More details on the FLIM FRET setup are given in references (27,50). The data analysis was performed using a commercial software (SPCImage, V8.1, Becker & Hickl, Germany).…”