Micelles of cleavable gemini surfactant induce fluorescence switching in novel probe: Industrial insight

Abstract

In this communication we have observed that cleavable gemini surfactant micelles induce fluorescence switching in novel probe (bound to lysozyme) at lower concentrations (∼2.63 mM) compared to conventional surfactants, which are known to induce such phenomenon at above 30 mM. Fluorescence switching being important in sensing, binding, and probing the conformational states of proteins; therefore, in future this study could be significant to protein analytics and other relevant industrial domains.