ROOM‐TEMPERATURE STEADY‐STATE FLUORESCENCE PROPERTIES OF POLY(dG‐dC).SPOLY(dG‐dC)
- 1 July 1992
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Photochemistry and Photobiology
- Vol. 56 (1) , 95-99
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-1097.1992.tb09608.x
Abstract
We report the steady-state fluorescence properties of the alternating polynucleotide poly(dG-dC).poly(dG-dC) in low-salt solution at room temperature for excitation at the Hg lines 265, 280 and 297 nm. Its fluorescence spectrum peaks at about 325 nm and, within the experimental error, its shape does not change significantly with the excitation wavelength. The fluorescence anisotropy is found to decrease strongly for short-wavelength excitation, a behavior which is very similar to that exhibited by free guanine. In view of the fact that the anisotropy for free cytosine is virtually constant at the aforementioned three excitation wavelengths, the results suggest that in this polynucleotide the emission stems from guanine. The values of the fluorescence quantum yield for the three excitation wavelengths are found to be very low, 0.8 x 10(-5), 0.8 x 10(-5), and 2.8 x 10(-5), respectively; these are compatible with transfer of energy from the lower-energy electronic state of guanine, before vibronic relaxation is established, to cytosine. Upon denaturation, the fluorescence spectrum becomes very broad and the fluorescence quantum yield increases; these observations support the authenticity of the emission from the nondenatured polynucleotide.Keywords
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