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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2005, p. 6453-6457, Vol. 71, No. 10
0099-2240/05/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/AEM.71.10.6453-6457.2005
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Department of Civil Engineering and Division of Environmental Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117576
Received 25 March 2005/ Accepted 31 May 2005
The effects of temperature, salt concentration, and formamide concentration on the emission characteristics of commonly used fluorescent labels were evaluated on DNA microchips. The emission intensities of different fluorophores without hybridization were observed to vary, each to a different extent, to mainly temperature changes. Rhodamine red, TAMRA (tetramethylrhodamine), and dyes from the carbocyanide group exhibited the largest variations, and Texas Red and Oregon Green exhibited the smallest variations. This temperature dependency was shown to affect results obtained during melting curve analysis in DNA microarray studies. To minimize the bias associated with the temperature-dependent emission of different fluorescent labels, a normalization step was proposed.
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