Fluorescence characteristics of 5-carboxytetramethylrhodamine linked covalently to the 5' end of oligonucleotides: Multiple conformers of single- stranded and double-stranded dye-DNA complexes

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 972-994

  Vámosi, György ^a,c   Gohlke, Christoph ^a,b   Clegg, Robert M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b FRITZ LIPMANN INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 CARBOXYTETRAMETHYLRHODAMINE; ALCOHOL; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FLUORESCENT DYE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONJUGATION; DNA DENATURATION; DNA DRUG COMPLEX; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; IONIC STRENGTH; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0029737547     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79300-1     Document Type: Article

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