Abstract:
The binding reaction of nucleic acid with pyronine GS has been studied by the spectrophotometry.A claret complex,which exhibited a positive absorption peak located at 570nm and a negative peak at 540nm,was formed from pyronine GS and nucleic acid in the NaH2PO4-K2HPO4 buffer with pH of 6.0 at room temperature.A new double-peak-double-wavelength spectrophotometry for the determination of nucleic acid was developed based on the binding reaction.The detection limit of this method for the determinatin of calf-thymus DNA(ct DNA),fish sperm DNA(fs DNA),yeast RNA(yt RNA) and denatured calf-thymus DNA was less than 0.011μg/mL.The proposed method,which is simple,rapid,stable,highly selective and precise,has been applied for the determination of ct DNA in the four synthetic samples with recovery ranged from 96.1% to 103.0%.