Short-range spectroscopic ruler based on a single-molecule optical switch

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Bates, Mark ^a   Blosser, Timothy R ^a,b   Zhuang, Xiaowei ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORSTER RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER (FRET); PRIMARY FLUOROPHORES; SECONDARY CHROMOPHORES; SPECTROSCOPIC RULERS;

CHARGE TRANSFER; CHROMOPHORES; CONFORMATIONS; DNA; DYES; ENZYMES; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; MOLECULES; RNA; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SWITCHING;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIOTIN; BIOTIN-STREPTAVIDIN COMPLEX; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CARBOCYANINE; CYANINE DYE 3; CYANINE DYE 5; DNA; RIBOZYME;

ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DNA DAMAGE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; OPTICS; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOTIN; CARBOCYANINES; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; RNA, CATALYTIC; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE;

EID: 18044373456     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.108101     Document Type: Article

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