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Photonuclease activity of Taylor's blue
1Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1393, USA.
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
|August 28, 1999
Abstract:
Taylor's blue (1,9-dimethylmethylene blue, DMMB+) associates with DNA, at least in part, through intercalation as is evidenced from the red shift in the absorption maximum, diminution of the fluorescence, and induced circular dichroism in the presence of nucleic acid. Irradiation of DMMB+/covalently closed circular supercoiled phiX174 phage DNA complex at lambda > 520 nm leads to DNA nicking in a dose-dependent manner.