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Detection of nucleic acid hybridization by nonradiative fluorescence resonance energy transfer.

Abstract：

:Three approaches were used to study hybridization of complementary oligodeoxynucleotides by nonradiative fluorescence resonance energy transfer. (i) Fluorescein (donor) and rhodamine (acceptor) were covalently attached to the 5' ends of complementary oligodeoxynucleotides of various lengths. Upon hybridization of the complementary oligodeoxynucleotides, energy transfer was detected by both a decrease in fluorescein emission intensity and an enhancement in rhodamine emission intensity. In all cases, fluorescein emission intensity was quenched by about 26% in the presence of unlabeled complement. Transfer efficiency at 5 degrees C decreased from 0.50 to 0.22 to 0.04 as the distance between donor and acceptor fluorophores in the hybrid increased from 8 to 12 to 16 nucleotides. Modeling of these hybrids as double helices showed that transfer efficiency decreased as the reciprocal of the sixth power of the donor-acceptor separation R, as predicted by theory with a corresponding R0 of 49 A. (ii) Fluorescence resonance energy transfer was used to study hybridization of two fluorophore-labeled oligonucleotides to a longer, unlabeled oligodeoxynucleotide. Two 12-mers were prepared that were complementary to two adjacent sequences separated by four bases on a 29-mer. The adjacent 5' and 3' ends of the two 12-mers labeled with fluorescein and rhodamine exhibited a transfer efficiency of approximately 0.60 at 5 degrees C when they both hybridized to the unlabeled 29-mer. (iii) An intercalating dye, acridine orange, was used as the donor fluorophore to a single rhodamine covalently attached to the 5' end of one oligodeoxynucleotide in a 12-base-pair hybrid. Under these conditions, the transfer efficiency was approximately 0.47 at 5 degrees C. These results establish that fluorescence modulation and nonradiative fluorescence resonance energy transfer can detect nucleic acid hybridization in solution. These techniques, with further development, may also prove useful for detecting and quantifying nucleic acid hybridization in living cells.

journal_name

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

journal_title

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

authors

Cardullo RA,Agrawal S,Flores C,Zamecnik PC,Wolf DE

doi

10.1073/pnas.85.23.8790

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1988-12-01 00:00:00

pages

8790-4

issue

eissn

0027-8424

issn

1091-6490

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Detection of nucleic acid hybridization by nonradiative fluorescence resonance energy transfer.