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Fluorescence spectral characteristics of novel asymmetric monomethine cyanine dyes in nucleic acid solutions
Author(s) -
Timcheva Iliana I,
Maximova Vera A,
Deligeorgiev Todor G,
Gadjev Nikolai I,
Sabnis Ram W,
Ivanov Ivan G
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
febs letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.593
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1873-3468
pISSN - 0014-5793
DOI - 10.1016/s0014-5793(97)00171-3
Subject(s) - cyanine , fluorescence , nucleic acid , chemistry , photochemistry , intercalation (chemistry) , quenching (fluorescence) , dna , nucleic acid quantitation , biophysics , biochemistry , inorganic chemistry , biology , physics , quantum mechanics
Six new asymmetric monomethine cyanine dyes have been synthesized and their fluorescence characteristics in the presence of nucleic acids studied. The new dyes have no fluorescence of their own in water solutions upon excitation at 480 nm but they become strongly fluorescent in the presence of nucleic acids. The fluorescence maxima of the investigated dyes are found at 525–545 nm when bound to dsDNA and around 600 nm upon binding to RNA and ssDNA. Fluorescence quenching studies with increasing concentrations of NaCl indicate that the cyanine dyes have a mixed (intercalating and groove binding) type of interaction with dsDNA. © 1997 Federation of European Biochemical Societies.