Fluorescence quenching of ethidium ion by porphyrin cations and quaternary ammonium surfactants in the presence of DNA

Spectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy

Volumn 53, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 2701-2707

  Jin, Wei Jun ^a,b   Wei, Yan Sheng ^b   Liu, Chang Song ^b   Shen, Guo Li ^a   Yu, Ru Qin ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DNA; Ethidium bromide; Fluorescence; Porphyrin; Quaternary ammonium surfactants; Quenching

Indexed keywords

DETERGENT; DNA; ETHIDIUM; INTERCALATING AGENT; PORPHYRIN; SURFACTANT;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; FLUORESCENCE; LETTER; METABOLISM; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

DETERGENTS; DNA; ETHIDIUM; FLUORESCENCE; INTERCALATING AGENTS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PORPHYRINS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 0031303361     PISSN: 13861425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-1425(97)00157-1     Document Type: Article

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