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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 4.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Org Synth. 2011 Aug;8(4):521–534. doi: 10.2174/157017911796117223

Fig. (11).

Fig. (11)

Mechanism of activation of topologically activated fluorescent dyes. Dyes change their conformation due to a change in environment leading to an increase in fluorescence. For example, conformational degrees of freedom quench the fluorescent signal when the dye is unbound, but upon binding to β-amyloid plaques, the dye becomes rigid and fluoresces.