qFlamma® Black01 Vinylsulfone is a versatile, amine-reactive universal dark quencher developed by BioActs. This innovative quencher offers a broad absorption range from 400 to 800 nm with no native fluorescence, making it an ideal choice for various fluorescence-based applications.
Key Features
1. road Absorption Range: 400-800 nm, with a maximum at 490 nm
2. High Absorption Coefficient: Ensures efficient quenching
3. No Native Fluorescence: Provides low background signal
4. Excellent Stability: Maintains performance across a wide pH range and at high temperatures
5. High Aqueous Solubility: Facilitates use in biological systems
6. Reactive Vinylsulfone Group: Enables efficient and stable conjugation to amine-containing biomolecules
Applications
1.Multiplexed Bio-analysis: Enables simultaneous detection of multiple targets
2. PCR and qPCR: Enhances sensitivity and specificity of nucleic acid amplification assays
3. Nucleic Acid Hybridization: Improves signal-to-noise ratio in hybridization-based techniques
4. FRET-based Assays: Acts as an efficient acceptor for a wide range of fluorophores
5. Custom-synthesized Activatable Probes: Allows design of sophisticated molecular probes
6. Protein and Peptide Labeling: Facilitates tracking and quantification of biomolecules
7. High-throughput Imaging Assays: Supports large-scale screening and analysis
Advantages
1. Universal Quenching: Compatible with virtually all commercially available fluorescent dyes due to its broad absorption spectrum
2. High Sensitivity: Excellent quenching efficiency leads to improved signal-to-noise ratios
3. Versatility: Suitable for various biomolecules including nucleic acids, proteins, and peptides
4. Stability: Maintains performance across a wide pH range and at high temperatures
5. Water Solubility: Enables direct use in aqueous solutions without organic co-solvents
6. Efficient Conjugation: Vinylsulfone group allows for rapid and specific labeling of amine-containing molecules
7. Multiplexing Capability: Broad absorption range supports simultaneous use of multiple fluorophores
8. Low Background: Absence of native fluorescence ensures minimal interference with target signals
9. Biocompatibility: Stable amino linkage formation with biomolecules ensures reliable performance in biological systems
qFlamma® Black01 Vinylsulfone offers researchers a powerful and flexible tool for developing sensitive, specific, and versatile fluorescence-based assays across a wide range of biological applications. Its unique properties and stability make it an excellent choice for both routine and advanced molecular biology techniques.
Dark quenchers are substances that absorb excitation energy from a fluorophore and dissipate the energy as heat without any native fluorescence. The combination of a fluorescent dye and quencher may act as an on/off switch of fluorescence that the original fluorescence might be restored as the distance between them increases or when their connection is cleaved. In conjunction with fluorophores, dark quenchers are regarded as key components in designing FRET probes, in protease activity assays, nucleic acid hybridization, PCR, etc. The main advantage of dark quencher is the non-emissive excitation and elimination of background fluorescence. BioActs developed a new generation of azo-anthraquinone derivative dark quenchers, qFlamma® quenchers, to overcome issues associated with existing dark quenchers such as stability, quenching ability and water solubility.
The absorbance peaks of qFlamma® quenchers completely cover spectral range from visible to near-infrared (NIR) that all of commercially available fluorescent dyes can be effectively quenched. The quenchers display high absorption coefficient together with excellent quenching ability, superb stability and aqueous solubility so that it can easily manipulated in aqueous buffers. The four of qFlamma® quenchers (Black 01, Red, Blue and Orange) series cover the electromagnetic spectrum from 400 nm to NIR region and provides excellent spectral overlap across the entire range of known fluorescent dyes. The complete spectral overlap of qFlamma® quencher series along with their variety of reacting groups enable to design single-tube multiplexing assay system owing their capability for efficient quenching and the preventing cross-talking between dyes. BioActs offers qFlamma® quenchers as universal dark quenchers for the construction of a variety of hybridization and custom-synthesized probes incorporated spectrally paired fluorophores and quenchers for multiplexed bio-analysis, PCR, nucleic acid hybridization, and high-throughput imaging assays.
Completely dissipate fluorescent energy without native fluorescence
Can quench all of commercially available fluorescent dyes
High absorption coefficient, excellent quenching ability, superb stability and aqueous solubility
High purity and compatible with most of biomolecules.
Types of qFlamma® Quenchers
Figure 1.Absorption spectra of 4 qFlamma® quenchers with emission maxima of commonlyused fluorescent dyes.
Citation & Reference
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2. Arnaud Chevalier. Universal Dark Quencher Based on “Clicked” Spectrally Distinct Azo Dyes. Org. Lett 2013 15.23 (2013): 6082–6085.
3. Arnaud Chevalier. Straightforward synthesis of bioconjugatable azo dyes. Part 1: Black Hole Quencher-1 (BHQ-1) scaffold. Tetrahedron Letters 55.50 (2014): 6759-6763.