Metachromatic assay for the quantitative
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Tibor Keler; Alois Nowotny
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Article
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1986
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Elsevier Science
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English
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## A metachromatic dye. 1.9-dimethylmethylene blue (DMB) reacts with bacterial endotoxins. This interaction results in a shift of the absorption maximum of DMB to shorter wavelengths. The findings indicate that the negatively charged lipid moiety of the endotoxic lipopolysaccharide reacts with DMB.