Raw and partially processed data for Girvan, Ying and Dodson (2025) Chem Commun.

Tetramethylrhodamine (TMR) is a fluorescent dye whose self-quenching has been used as a probe of multiple biological phenomena. We determine the distance-dependence of self-quenching and place bounds on the timescale of TMR dissociation. Our results validate fluorescence self-quenching as an alternative to FRET and enable future assays to be designed with confidence.

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