Fluorescamine is an amine-reactive fluorescent probe.1 It has commonly been used as a reagent in fluorometric protein assays.2,3 It displays excitation/emission maxima of 370/488 nm, respectively, in acetone.1
1.Chen, R.F., and Scott, C.H.Atlas of fluorescence spectra and lifetimes of dyes attached to proteinAnal. Lett.18(4)393-421(1985) 2.Udenfriend, S., Stein, S., B?hlen, P., et al.Fluorescamine: A reagent for assay of amino acids, peptides, proteins, and primary amines in the picomole rangeScience178(4063)871-872(1972) 3.Tsukagoshi, K., Tanaka, A., Nakajima, R., et al.On-line capillary zone electrophoretic separation-chemiluminescence detection of protein labeled with fluorescamineAnal. Sci.12525-528(1996)