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. 1989 May;55(5):885–895. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(89)82887-5

Quenching of fluorescence of pyrene-substituted lecithin by tetracyanoquinodimethane in liposomes.

H Lemmetyinen 1, M Yliperttula 1, J Mikkola 1, P Kinnunen 1
PMCID: PMC1330525  PMID: 2720079

Abstract

In this work we have applied a kinetic scheme derived from fluorescence kinetics of pyrene-labeled phosphatidylcholine in phosphatidylcholine membrane to explain the fluorescence quenching of 1-palmitoyl-2-(10-[pyrenl-yl]-sn-glycerol-3-phosphatidylchol ine (PPDPC) liposomes by tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ). The scheme was also found to be applicable to neat PPDPC and the effect of the quencher could be attributed to certain steps of the proposed mechanism. The TCNQ molecules influence the fluorescence of pyrene moieties in PPDPC liposome in two ways. Firstly, an interaction between the quencher molecule and the pyrene monomer in the excited state quenches monomer fluorescence and effectively prevents the diffusional formation of the excimer. Secondly, an interaction between the quencher molecule and the excited dimer quenches the excimer fluorescence. The TCNQ molecule does not prevent the formation of the excimer in pyrene moieties aggregated in such a way that they require only a small rotational motion to attain excimer configuration. The diffusional quenching rate constant is calculated to be 1.0 x 10(8) M-1 s-1 for the pyrene monomer quenching and 1.3 x 10(7) M-1 s-1 for the pyrene excimer quenching. The diffusion constant of TCNQ is 1.5 x 10(-7) cm2 s-1 for the interaction radii of 0.8-0.9 nm. The TCNQ molecules are practically totally partitioned in the membrane phase.

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