title: Blinking triggered by the change in the solvent accessibility of a fluorescent molecule.
abstract: The more a fluorescent molecule is exposed to a solvent, the faster its triplet excited state is quenched by molecular oxygen. The changes in the solvent accessibility of a fluorescent molecule were probed by measuring the duration of the off time during the blinking of the fluorescence, which enabled analysis of the function of a molecular beacon-type probe.
authors: The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Mihogaoka 8-1, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan. kiyohiko@sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp majima@sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp.
authors: Kiyohiko
authors: K
authors: Kawai
authors: Takeshi
authors: T
authors: Koshimo
authors: Atsushi
authors: A
authors: Maruyama
authors: Tetsuro
authors: T
authors: Majima
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry*; D008751:Methylene Blue / Q000737:chemistry; D010100:Oxygen / Q000737:chemistry; D011789:Quantum Theory; D012235:Rhodamines / Q000737:chemistry; D012997:Solvents / Q000737:chemistry*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence
chemical_list: D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D012235:Rhodamines; D012997:Solvents; C026188:rhodamine 6G; D004247:DNA; D010100:Oxygen; D008751:Methylene Blue