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BIOCONJUGATE CHEMISTRY
Volume 16, Issue 3, Pages 528-534Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bc0497766
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM067201] Funding Source: Medline
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In an effort to find fluorescent labels that have large Stokes shifts and increased emission intensity, a strategy for fluorescence labeling of DNA was explored in which multiple individual fluorophores are incorporated at adjacent positions at the end of a DNA probe. To encourage close interactions, hydrocarbon and heterocycle fluorophores were substituted at C-1 of deoxyribose, replacing the DNA base. The C-glycosides studied contained the well-known fluorophores terphenyl, pyrene, and terthiophene. For comparison, a commercial fluorescein-dU nucleotide was examined. Oligomeric labels containing up to five fluorophores were tested. Interestingly, all four dyes behaved differently on multiple substitution. Fluorescein displayed strong self-quenching properties, with the quantum yield dropping severalfold with each additional substitution and with a constant, small Stokes shift. In contrast, pyrene showed increases in quantum yield on addition of more than one fluorophore and yielded efficient long-wavelength emission on multiple substitution, with Stokes shifts of > 130 nm. Oligomeric terphenyl labels gave a small progressive red shift in absorption and a marked red shift in emission wavelength and showed a strong increase in brightness with more monomers. Finally, terthiophene oligomers showed self-quenching combined with increasing Stokes shifts. Overall, the results suggest that some oligomeric fluorescent labels exhibit properties not available in common fluorescein class (or other commercial) labels, such as large Stokes shifts and increasing brightness with increasing substitution.
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