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In this report, we report on a newly developed fluorescence assay termed Protein Induced-Fluorescence Enhancement (PIFE), which circumvents protein labeling and displays sharp detection sensitivity in short distance regions, overcoming the inherent limitations of FRET. The enhancement of fluorescence is based on the photophysical phenomenon where the intensity of a fluorophore increases upon the proximal binding of a protein. Using BamHI, Rig-I, and RecA as test protein systems, we present a systematic calibration and characterization of the PIFE technique. We demonstrate that this method enables detection under 4nm distance range with the resolution up to a single base pair. 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