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CHEMISTRY-AN ASIAN JOURNAL
Volume 3, Issue 6, Pages 958-968Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/asia.200800014
Keywords
absorption; aggregation; dyes; fluorescent probes; oligonucleotides
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The design of dyes that emit fluorescence only when they recognize the target molecule, that is, chemistry for the effective quenching of free dyes, must play a significant role in the development of the next generation of functional fluorescent dyes. On the basis of this concept, we designed a doubly fluorescence-labeled nucleoside. Two thiazole orange dyes were covalently linked to a single nucleotide in a DNA probe. An absorption band at approximately 480 nm appeared strongly when the probe was in a single-stranded state, whereas an absorption band at approximately 5.10 nm became predominant when the probe was hybridized with the complementary strand. The shift in the absorption bands shows the existence of an excitonic interaction caused by the formation of an H aggregate between dyes, and as a result, emission from the probe before hybridization was suppressed. Dissociation of aggregates by hybridization with the complementary strand resulted in the disruption of the excitonic interaction and strong emission from the hybrid. This clear change in fluorescence intensity that is dependent on hybridization is useful for visible gene analysis.
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