Journal
ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 293, Issue 1, Pages 60-66Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1006/abio.2001.5103
Keywords
fluorescence; fluorescence quenching; chloride; halide ions; 6-methoxyquinoline; 6-methylquinoline; spq; halide sensing
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Three fluorescent halide-sensitive quinolinium dyes have been produced by the reaction of the 6-methylquinoline heterocyclic nitrogen base with methyl bromide, methyl iodide, and 3-bromo-1-propanol. The quaternary salts, unlike the precursor molecule, are readily water soluble and the fluorescence intensity of these salts is reduced in the presence of aqueous chloride, bromide, and iodide ions, allowing halide solution concentrations to be determined using well-known Stern-Volmer kinetics. One of the dyes, dye 1, has a chloride Stern-Volmer constant of 255 mol(-1) dm(3) which is more than twice that of SPQ [6-methoxy-N-(3-sulfopropyl)quinolinium] used in recent physiological measurements to measure intracellular chloride levels. The dyes have been characterized using steady-state fluorescence spectroscopy and are compared to three similar dyes based on the 6-methoxyquinoline nucleus, reported earlier by the authors, and also to dyes reported by Krapf et al. (Anal. Biochem. 169, 142-150, 1988). The interference of aqueous anions and the potential for using these dyes in biological halide-sensing applications are discussed. (C) 2001 Academic Press.
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