Probing Single-Stranded DNA Conformational Flexibility Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2530-2537

  Murphy, M C ^a   Rasnik, Ivan ^a   Cheng, Wei ^b   Lohman, Timothy M ^b   Ha, Taekjip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE; OLIGODEOXYTHYMIDYLIC ACID; RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THYMIDINE PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA METABOLISM; DNA PROBE; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORM LIKE CHAIN MODEL;

EID: 1942423138     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(04)74308-8     Document Type: Article

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