The synthesis of RNA molecules carrying acridine or quindoline residues at their 3'- and 5'-termini is reported. These conjugates are fully characterized by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. Modified siRNA duplexes carrying acridine or quindoline moieties were evaluated for inhibition of the tumor necrosis factor. The conjugates showed inhibitory properties similar to those of unmodified RNA duplexe...

Optical absorption and fluorescence emission spectral studies of acridine in different solvents namely, carbon tetrachloride, dichloromethane, propan-2-ol, ethanol, methanol, acetonitrile, and N,Ndimenthyl formamide have been investigated. Oscillator strength and transition dipole moment of the acridine have been elucidated from the optical absorption measurement. The ratio of the excited state...

The title compound, C(28)H(28)N(2)O(5), consists of a partially hydrogenated acridine ring system with two substituted phenyl substituents on the dihydro-pyridine ring which are both nearly perpendicular to the mean plane of the acridine unit [dihedral angles of 81.3 (1) and 89.6 (1)° between the central ring of acridine and the methoxyphenyl and nitrophenyl rings, respectively]. The dihydro-py...

Bis-acridine orange peptides carrying two acridine oranges at the epsilon-amino moieties of both terminal lysines of a tetra(lysine) chain showed a ca. 200-fold fluorescence enhancement upon addition of double stranded DNA.

Acridine Orange is a cell-permeable green fluorophore that can be protonated and trapped in acidic vesicular organelles (AVOs). Its metachromatic shift to red fluorescence is concentration-dependent and, therefore, Acridine Orange fluoresces red in AVOs, such as autolysosomes. This makes Acridine Orange staining a quick, accessible and reliable method to assess the volume of AVOs, which increas...

Due to purely steric effects of acridine units, acenaphthylene-1,2-diyldi(9-acridine) has a long C=C bond [1.3789(19) Å] while maintaining its sp(2) hybridized nature and bond order.

Synthesis and characterization of a new macrocyclic compound, composed by a triethylentetraamine chain linking the 4 and 5 positions of an acridine moiety, are reported. The molecule, devised as a fluorescent chemosensor for anions, has revealed an intriguing pH-dependent spectroscopic behavior, whose features are the specific object of this article. Ligand protonation in aqueous solution has b...

Fluorescent DeltapH and DeltaPsi indicators have been screened for the non-invasive monitoring of bioenergetic processes in whole cells of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Acridine yellow and Acridine orange proved to be the best DeltapH indicators for the investigation of thylakoid and cytoplasmic membrane energization: While Acridine yellow indicated only cytosolic energization,...