Fluorescence components

Browning Reactions. The fluorescent components formed in the browning reaction (8) of peroxidized phosphatidylethanolamine are produced mainly by interaction of the amine group of PE and saturated aldehydes produced through the decomposition of fatty acid hydroperoxides. 

When recording excitation and fluorescence spectra it must be ensured that monochromatic light falls on the detector This can best be verified in instruments built up on the kit principle or in those equipped with two monochromators (spectrofluonmeters) The majority of scanners commercially available at the moment do not allow of such an optical train, which was realized in the KM3 chromatogram spectrometer (Zeiss) So such units are not able to generate direct absorption or fluorescence spectra for the charactenzation of fluorescent components... 

Conversion of A -3-ketosteroids or their trimethylsilyl or acetyl derivatives in fluorescent components, whereby the detection limits were improved by 65% for the acetates. A -3-keto- and A -3-OH-steroids also react with the same sensitivity. 

The fluorescent components are denoted by / (intensity) followed by a capitalized subscript (D A or s, for respectively Donors, Acceptors, or s.e.) to indicate the particular population of molecules responsible for emission and a lower-case superscript ( " or ) that indicates the detection channel (or filter cube). For example, I denotes the intensity of the donors as detected in the donor channel and reads as Intensity of donors in the donor channel, etc. Notes (1) The excitation in the s.e. channel is generally set up to be equal to that in the donor channel. In case a separate filter cube is used, slight differences may occur, which is denoted by Don(S). See the text and appendix for further details. (2) The s.e. emission filter is usually the same as the acceptor emission filter in confocal determinations. We here designate a different filter to accommodate those wide-field/digital camera experiments that employ different filters for A and S. (3) Here the notation D-S indicates the residual (quenched) donor fluorescence in the presence of the acceptor. In the other chapters this is indicated as DA. Hence ... 

Fluorescence and Heterogeneity of Adducts. The fluorescence properties of adducts can provide further insight into the heterogeneity of the adducts. Prusik et al (37) reported that there are two fluorescent components in covalent (+)-anti-BaPDE-DNA adducts. One component with a 75% amplitude, was characterized by a 8.2 ns lifetime, and the other by a 125 ns lifetime (in air-saturated solutions) with a 25% amplitude. Upon dilution of the DNA, the relative amplitude of the long-lived component was found to increase. Recent measurements by Undeman et al (10) indicate that the long-lived component is a minor one (42 ns, 6%), and that there are two other short-lived decay components (1.6 ns, 52% and 7.0 ns, 42% amplitude). ... 

We find that the fluorescence yield of freshly prepared covalent (+)-anti-BaPDE-DNA adducts in oxygen-free solutions is 66+2 lower than the yield of the tetraol 7,8,9,10-tetrahydroxytetrahydro-benzo(a)pyrene (BaPT) in the absence of DNA. Since the fluorescence lifetime of BaPT under these conditions is 200ns, the mean fluorescence lifetime of the adducts (see reference T7) can be estimated to have a lower limit of 3ns, which is close to the mean value of 0.52x1.6 + 0.42x4.0 = 2.7 ns estimated from the two short fluorescence components of Undeman et al (10). 

In multicomponent systems A"0 can be written as a sum of the individual absorption coefficients A ot = 2TA , where each AT,(A ) depends in a different way on the wavelength. If one or more of the components are fluorescent, their excitation spectra are mutually attenuated by absorption filters of the other compounds. This effect is included in Eqs. (8.27) and (8.28) so that examples like that of Figure 8.4 can be quantified. The two fluorescent components are monomeric an aggregated pyrene, Mi and Mn. The fluorescence spectra of these species are clearly different from each other but the absorption spectra overlap strongly. Thus the excitation spectrum of the minority component M is totally distorted by the Mi filter (absorption maxima of Mi appear as a minima in the excitation spectrum ofM see Figure 8.4, top). In transparent samples this effect can be reduced by dilution. However, this method is not very efficient in scattering media as can be seen by solving Eqs. (8.27 and 8.28) for bSd — 0. Only the limit d 0 will produce the desired relation where fluorescence intensity and absorption coefficient of the fluorophore are linearly proportional to each other in a multicomponent system. 

Armstrong WG (1968) A method for the simultaneous separation and assays of peptides and attached carbohydrate and fluorescent components. Automat Anal Chem (Technicon Symp 3rd, 1967) 1, 295-299. 

Figure 9. Time-resolved decay-associated spectra of the fluorescence components with the relative...

Figure 13. Time-resolved decay-associated spectra of the UV (protein) fluorescence components i, rp)i - 4 of Pr phytochrome (124 kDa) and of the red-light adapted Pr + Pfr mixture obtained by global analysis. The dashed line corresponds to the stationary fluorescence spectrum obtained by A c = 295 nm (cf. Figure 11). The amplitudes of the two sets of spectra can be compared on an absolute basis (Holzwarth et al. [108]).

Buffers should have low absorbance and low fluorescence in the regions of excitation and emission. Absorbance will usually be expected to be <0.1 and fluorescence close to zero. This will normally be the case for standard buffers made from analytical-grade reagents or materials of equivalent purity, but they should nevertheless be checked routinely for fluorescence. If a fluorescent component is added to the solution—e.g., as a ligand—it should be checked that the observed fluorescence arises solely from that component. The actual buffer solution used to dissolve or to dialyze the protein should be used for the fluorescence blank. Plastic containers (and stirring bars) may contribute fluorescent agents if these are used, appropriate blanks should be carefully monitored for fluorescence. 

Temperature equilibration is not usually important for the buffer, except in cases where it contains fluorescent components. 

All fluorescence of a protein is due to tryptophan, tyrosine, and phenylalanine, unless the protein contains another fluorescent component. 

For years it has been known that the quantum yield of fluorescence for a number of aromatic hydrocarbons decreases with increasing concentration, but the cause of this concentration quenching was not well understood. In 1955 it was first noted by Forster that increasing concentration not only quenches the normal fluorescence of pyrene (5), but also introduces a new fluorescent component. 

Detection by Fluorescence. The detection test is the ultraviolet light-activated yellow fluorescence which is induced only after spraying with 70% aqueous sulfuric acid (2). A preliminary inspection under ultraviolet light eliminates substances with non-sulfuric acid-induced ultraviolet fluorescence. In practice, the restriction to yellow eliminates many predominantly blue components in a plant extract chromatogram. Some yellow fluorescent components have been observed on occasion from plant sources without spraying, and are thus eliminated. Few bands have been observed that give a positive test other than at the Rf of GA3 or its decomposition produots. 

Fig. 1. Various schematics of bead display for molecular assemblies on beads. The Py subunits of the G protein (circles labeled with [i and y) are fused with either FLAG or hexahistidine tag, which recognizes the biotinylated M2 anti-FLAG antibodies on streptavidin-coated beads or chelated nickel on the dextran-treated beads. A socket and plug connecter is utilized to depict the very high-affinity interaction of the epitope tag. This modular setup allows for either a subunit (for capturing FPR-GFP) or as subunit (for capturing / 2AR-GFP) to be coupled with the fly subunit to form the complete G protein coating the bead. Fluorescent components such as GFP or ligand are indicated in green. See text for details.

With the exception of the four samples that were exposed to NFLOH (see Table 11.4), all samples that were isolated by SPE using either XAD resins or Ci8 adsorbents are more unsaturated (higher f/total) than marine biomass (11.6mmolg 1). Given that chromophoric and fluorescent components of DOM are preferentially... 

D-Fluorescence spectroscopic analysis has also been used for analysis of terrestrial and aquatic HS. Figure 16.40 shows an example of topographic and contour plot of 3D-fluorescence spectrum. In this case, the Fluorescence spectroscopy involved scanning and recording 17 individual emission spectra (260-700 nm) at sequential 10-nm increments of excitation wavelength between 250 and 410 nm (Parlanti et al., 2002). The authors used this technique to obtain structural information about HS and also used it in studies concerning their transformation processes. They reported that there were five major fluorescent components in bulk seawater based on 3D-fluorescence spectroscopy. They defined a and a (excitation at 330-350 nm and emission at 420-480 nm excitation at 250-260 nm and emission at... 

Rayleigh scattering is an ever present interference for any resonant fluorescence component and will set the ultimate lower limit on detectability. It is generally very small though and and has the property of being highly polarized. This property... 

A similar analysis of expected signals can be performed in the case of circularly polarized excitation. If we observe the circularly polarized fluorescence in the xy plane, the righthanded Ir and lefthanded // polarized fluorescence components can be written in accordance with (2.24), and in... 

This peculiarity in the behavior of polarization of radiation under the electric field effect ought to be easily understood from an analysis of Eq. (5.14). As can be seen, the intensities of the two fluorescence components differ in the sign of the second term, which is proportional to (T2 + w+i)-1- the case of the Hanle effect at increase in magnetic field strength all increase, and the second term becomes... 

Figure 11. Acid dependence of the fractional quantum yields of separate fluorescence components of 2-naphthylamine (0y) molecular (violet) component in H2SO4/H2O (0 ) same in D2S04/D20 (0 J) cationic (UV) component in H2SO4/H2O (0 ) same in D2SO4/D2O (Forster, 1972).

It is obvious from Table 4.6 that the problem of excitation transfer from mercury to thallium is in a very unsatisfactory state. There is an apparent lack of consistency in the results of Kraulinya et al. (104), whose cross sections for excitation transfer to the 8 2S1/2, 6 2D2/2, and 7 2S1/2 levels in thallium seem to depend on the wavelength of the observed fluorescent component. The results of the two groups (Hudson and Curnutte and Kraulinya et al.) do not agree well with each other, and there is no consistent dependence of the measured cross sections on temperature. Finally, one would expect that the cross sections should decrease in some manner with increasing energy gap AE, but the results seem to indicate the opposite. It is manifest that considerable additional experimental work is needed to overcome these difficulties. 

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