A novel means of investigating the polarity gradient in the micelle sodium lauryl sulphate using a series of n-(9-anthroyloxy) fatty acids as fluorescent probes
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Faraday Transactions 1: Physical Chemistry in Condensed Phases
- Vol. 77 (10) , 2551-2558
- https://doi.org/10.1039/f19817702551
Abstract
The fluorescence behaviour of a series of n-(9-anthroyloxy) fatty acids has been studied in saturated hydrocarbon solvents of increasing viscosity and solvents of increasing polarity. Fluorescence quenching experiments in these solvents and in micelles of sodium lauryl sulphate show that the probes locate at a graded series of depths in the micelle. The spectral characteristics of emission from the probes indicate an increasing polarity gradient from the core to the surface of the micelle.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Properties and the locations of a set of fluorescent probes sensitive to the fluidity gradient of the lipid bilayerBiochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, 1978