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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 88, Issue 1, Pages 718-724Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b02747
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- Program Molecular and Cell Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [14-04-90024_Bel, 13-04-02068]
- Russian Foundation President Fellowship [SP-1982.2015.4]
- Belarusian Republican Foundation for Fundamental Research [F14R-226]
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Thioflavin T (ThT) is widely used to study amyloid fibrils while its properties are still debated in the literature. By steady-state and femtosecond timeresolved fluorescence we showed that, unlike small sized rigid molecules, the fluorescence anisotropy value of the free ThT in aqueous solutions is very high, close to the limiting value. This is determined by the molecular rotor nature of ThT, where the direction of the ThT transition dipole moment S-0 -> S-1* is not changed either by the internal rotation of the ThT benzothiazole and aminobenzene rings relative to each other in the excited state, because the axis of this rotation coincides with the direction of the transition dipole moment, or by the rotation of the ThT molecule as a whole, because the rate of this process is 3 orders of magnitude smaller than the rate of the internal rotation which leads to the fluorescence quenching. Consequently, ThT fluorescence anisotropy cannot be directly used to study amyloid fibrils formation, as it was proposed by some authors.
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