| ethidium |
Ethidium bromide (EtBr) is an intercalating agent commonly used as a nucleic acid stain in molecular biology laboratories for techniques such as agarose gel electrophoresis. When exposed to ultraviolet light, it will fluoresce a red-orange color, especially when it binds to DNA (20-fold increase). This is likely not due to rigid stabilization of the phenyl moiety, because the phenyl ring has been shown to project outside the intercalated bases. ...
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| ethidium |
A molecule that can intercalate into DNA double helices when the helix is under torsional stress.
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