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BHQ-2 (Black Hole Quencher 2, 3')

3'-BHQ-2

Code : [BHQ-2-3]

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Modification : 3'-BHQ-2

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5 Prime
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26-6468
Quenchers
[BHQ-2-3]
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Y
N
556.47
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PS26-6468.pdf
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Catalog NoScalePrice
26-6468-0550 nmol$76.00
26-6468-02200 nmol$76.00
26-6468-011 umol$98.00
26-6468-032 umol$147.00
26-6468-065 umol$441.00
26-6468-1010 umol$786.00
26-6468-1515 umol$983.00

Black Hole Quencher-2 (BHQ-2) is classified as a dark quencher (a non-fluorescent chromophore), and is extensively used as the 3'-quencher moiety in a variety of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) DNA detection probes. Such probes are primarily used in nucleic acid assays, but also find a place in nucleic acid structural studies (1). Examples include TaqMan probes (2), Scorpion primers (3), and Molecular Beacons (4).

BHQ-2 has an absorbance maximum of 579 nm, and an effective absorbance range of 550-650 nm. It is the preferred quencher for pairing with fluorescent dyes that emit in the yellow-orange part of the visible range (557-617 nm). The emission spectra of this set of dyes sufficiently overlaps the absorbance spectrum of BHQ-2 to allow the latter to quench the fluorescence of the former with a high degree of efficiency.

The advantages of using a dark quencher in a FRET probe are (a) low background fluorescence (and thus better signal-to-noise ratio), (b) higher dynamic range, (c) amenability to multiplex assays (due to a dark quencher having no secondary fluorescence), and (d) ease of synthesis of FRET probes with a dark quencher (due to dark quenchers being resistant to degradation during the oligo deprotection step) (5).



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Quencher Spectral Data

Quencher

Absorption Max, nm

Quenching Range, nm

Dabcyl 453 380-530
BHQ-0 495 430-520
BHQ1 534 480-580
BHQ2 579 550-650
BHQ3 672 620-730
BBQ-650 650 550-750
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**Black Hole Quencher License Agreement
Black Hole Quencher License Agreement. "Black Hole Quencher®, BHQ®, CAL Fluor® and Quasar® are registered trademarks of Biosearch Technologies, Inc., Petaluma, California. The BHQ, CAL Fluor and Quasar dye technologies are protected by U.S. and world-wide patents either issued or in application. Compounds incorporating these dyes are made and sold under agreement with Biosearch Technologies, Inc. for end-user's non-commercial research and development use only. Their use in commercial applications is encouraged but requires a separate Commercial Use License granted by Biosearch Technologies, Inc."



References
1. Didenko, V.V. DNA Probes Using Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET): Designs and Applications. Biotechniques (2001), 31: 1106-1121.
2. Livak, K.J., Flood, S.J.A., Marmaro, J., Giusti, W., Deetz, K. Oligonucleotides with fluorescent dyes at opposite ends provide a quenched probe system useful for detecting PCR product and nucleic acid hybridization.PCR Methods Appl. (1995), 4: 1-6.
3. Thelwell, N., Millington, S., Solinas, A., Booth, J., Brown, T. Mode of action and application of Scorpion primers to mutation detection. Nucleic Acids Res. (2000), 28: 3752-3761.
4. Tyagi, S., Kramer, F.R. Molecular beacons: probes that fluoresce upon hybridization. Nat. Biotechnol. (1996), 14: 303-308.
5. Yeung, A.T., Holloway, B.P., Adams, P.S., Shipley, G.L. Evaluation of dual-labeled fluorescent DNA probe purity versus performance in real-time PCR. Biotechniques. (2004), 36: 266-270, 272, 274-275.
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