Journal
JOURNAL OF FLUORESCENCE
Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 370-376Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10895-007-0201-5
Keywords
nucleic acids; minor groove binding; J-aggregates; cyanine dye; fluorescence labels
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Optical spectroscopy experiments were used to study the features of cyanine dye 3,3'-dimethyl-9-(2-thienyl)-thiacarbocyanine iodide (L-21) aggregation in binary solutions DMF:Tris-HCl buffer (pH=8) containing nucleic acids (DNA or RNA). The appearance of absorption and luminescence bands associated with J-aggregates and dimers that are formed within the minor groove of DNA has been observed. The model of L-21 J-aggregate structure is proposed. It has been found that dimers are the building blocks of L-21 J-aggregates. Disorientation in dimers caused by the minor groove curvature is reason of observation of Davydov splitting in absorption spectrum of L-21 J-aggregates. In the solution containing DNA the absorption and luminescence bands of L-21 J-aggregates exhibit the specific properties that allows the dye L-21 to be used as a fluorescent probe for DNA detection.
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