Intramolecular Dimers: A New Strategy to Fluorescence Quenching in Dual-Labeled Oligonucleotide Probes
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Abstract
Many genomics assays use profluorescent oligonucleotide probes that are covalently labeled at the 5' end with a fluorophore and at the 3' end with a quencher. It is generally accepted that quenching in such probes without a stem structure occurs through Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET or FET) and that the fluorophore and quencher should be chosen to maximize their spectral overlap. We have studied two dual-labeled probes with two different fluorophores, the same sequence and quencher, and with no stem structure: 5'Cy3.5-beta-actin-3'BHQ1 and 5'FAM-beta-actin-3'BHQ1. Analysis of their absorption spectra, relative fluorescence quantum yields, and fluorescence lifetimes shows that static quenching occurs in both of these dual-labeled probes and that it is the dominant quenching mechanism in the Cy3.5-BHQ1 probe. Absorption spectra are consistent with the formation of an excitonic dimer, an intramolecular heterodimer between the Cy3.5 fluorophore and the BHQ1 quencher.
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