Published in Journal of Fluorescence
Rare earth ions, with relatively long luminescence lifetimes, have significant advantages for application in fields as varied as diagnostics and optical amplification. In diagnostics the long luminescence lifetimes allow for extremely sensitive time-gated detection, where the difference in temporal behavior of scatter and background fluorescence an...
Published in Journal of Fluorescence
Properties of the interfacial region between the nonpolar core and the polar shell in polystyreneblock-poly (methacrylic acid) micelles were studied by fluorescence techniques using 5-(N-octadecanoyl) aminofluorescein (OAF) as a probe for microfluidity and local pH. The block copolymer used was tagged between blocks by one 9, 10-diphenylanthracene ...
Published in Journal of Fluorescence
New fluorescent molecular rotors having hydrophilic functional groups (such as a sugar or an inositol group) were synthesized. The aim was to obtain impermeant and uncharged probes, with a defined orientation within a model membrane bilayer or in a cell membrane. Their fluorescence properties, which are dependent on solvent polarity and viscosity, ...
Published in Journal of Fluorescence
The absorption and fluorescence of substituted distyrylbenzene (DSB) derivatives and segmented poly(phenylene vinylene) (PPV) derivatives are characterized by long-wavelength absorption maxima and absorption coefficients of λa = 380–450 nm, ε = 20,000–60,000 M−1 cm1 and fluorescence maxima, quantum yields, and decay times of λr = 440–530 nm, Φf = 0...
Published in Journal of Fluorescence
The association of complex formation with static quenching in CT systems was investigated. Evaluation of the data made evident that the inner filter effect must be allowed for. Time-resolved and temperature-dependent stationary measurements of fluorescence led to the separation of dynamic and static quenching components. The static quenching consta...
Published in Journal of Fluorescence
The wavelength dependence of the intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence lifetime of a series of mutants of thetrp repressor protein was characterized in both the native and the denatured states. These mutants belong to a particular class, called superrepressors, as their phenotype, when expressedin vivo, is to repress transcription at lower concentratio...
Published in Journal of Fluorescence
The fluorescence decay of several organic dye molecules intercalated in egg phosphatidylcholine lipid membrane vesicles is consistent with the existence of two or three prominent lifetime components rather than a single continuous distribution of lifetimes. The major lifetime components are identified with different sites of solubilization in the m...
Published in Journal of Fluorescence
We describe a simple optical system employing fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) to identify potential binding domains on the macrophage scavenger receptor for the ligand maleylated bovine serum albumin (mal-BSA). Using a plasma membrane vesicle system, we placed donor probes on the ligand and acceptor probes in the membrane to determine...
Published in Journal of Fluorescence
It is shown that the relative intensity of the twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) band of ester and benzonitrile derivatives of dialkylaniline in polymethylmethacrylate polymer matrices of different molecular weights (MW) to increase with increasing MW of the polymer. Our results emphasis the role of local free volumes (mobility in the m...
Published in Journal of Fluorescence
In heterogeneous media, including biological objects, fluorescent molecules of one kind often exist as a mixture of species with different fluorescence parameters. Fractional concentrations of these species can be measured by analyzing their fluorescence decay amplitudes. The amplitudes are linear functions of concentrations of actually fluorescent...
