Effect of lesions on the dynamics of DNA on the picosecond and nanosecond timescales using a polarity sensitive probe

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2494-2507

  Somoza, Mark M ^b,c   Andreatta, Daniele ^b   Murphy, Catherine J ^b   Coleman, Robert S ^a   Berg, Mark A ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUMARIN; DNA; OLIGOMER; SUGAR; WATER; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA HELIX; DNA PROBE; DYNAMICS; GENE DELETION; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE CHARGE; TIME; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PLIABILITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

BASE PAIRING; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COUMARINS; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; KINETICS; PLIABILITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2442435604     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh577     Document Type: Article

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