title: The influence of DNA sequence on terbium (III) fluorescence enhancement by DNA.
abstract: The synthetic DNA duplexes, poly(dA-dC):poly(dG-dT), poly(dG):poly(dC), poly(dG-dC):poly(dG-dC), and poly(dG-m5dC):poly(dG-m5dC), were analyzed as double- and single-strand polymers for the ability to enhance terbium fluorescence. Using conditions which limited the enhancement of Tb3+ fluorescence to that from DNA-guanosines, our results showed that (a) guanosines in single-strand DNA enhanced terbium fluorescence equally well irrespective of the primary sequence surrounding them, and (b) guanosines in either left- (Z-form) or right- (B-form) handed double helixes failed to enhance terbium fluorescence.
mesh_terms: D004247:DNA; D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded; D007700:Kinetics; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D011089:Polydeoxyribonucleotides; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D013725:Terbium; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D004277:DNA, Single-Stranded; D011089:Polydeoxyribonucleotides; D013725:Terbium; D004247:DNA