Re: Surface Charge

Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. (rleif@mail.cts.com)
Sat, 11 May 96 20:11 PDT

From: Bob Leif

Howard Shapiro wrote>
>Many years ago Gunther Valet used fluorescein-tagged polyionic
>materials to estimate surface charge; would a similar approach work for
>you? -Howard
>
This should work; except fluorescein is the wrong dye. As Alan Wagonner,
now at Amersham Life Science in Pittsburgh, has pointed out, increasing the
charge on a dye will inhibit stacking and thus, decrease fluorescence quenching.


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