Phenanthroline-Cu complex-mediated chemiluminescence of DNA and its potential use in antioxidation evaluation
✍ Scribed by Wenjian Ma; En-Hua Cao; Jian Zhang; Jing-Fen Qin
- Book ID
- 104373331
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 591 KB
- Volume
- 44
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1011-1344
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✦ Synopsis
The chemiluminescence (CL) concomitant with phenXt?+ /ascorbatr:/H20,-induced DNA damage has been studied. The emission intensity increases linearly with increasing DNA concentration. The emission spectrum has a maximal wavelength at about 410 nm. The luminescence is inhibited by histone in a histone concentration-dependent manner.
The CL is characteristic of guanine.
Of all common kinds of bases and nucleotides, only guanine or guanine nucleotides can give rise to luminescence. The possibility of using the luminescence as a means of studying antioxidation related to DNA damage is discussed. Several kinds of well-defined antioxidants have been used as testing reagents and show that this method can not only evaluate the antioxidative effect but also distinguish different types of antioxidants.