Ultrafast dynamics in DNA: "Fraying" at the end of the helix

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 128, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 6885-6892

  Andreatta, Daniele ^a   Sen, Sobhan ^a   Pérez Lustres, J Luis ^b   Kovalenko, Sergey A ^b   Ernsting, Nikolaus P ^b   Murphy, Catherine J ^a   Coleman, Robert S ^c   Berg, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; DNA; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHOTONS;

PHOTON COUNTING; SPECIFIC TIME CONSTANTS; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION; WELL-DEFINED RELAXATION;

ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ADENINE; COUMARIN 102; COUMARIN DERIVATIVE; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA BASE; GUANINE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; THYMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DIPOLE; DNA HELIX; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC FIELD; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTON; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TIME; TIME CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING;

COLORING AGENTS; COUMARINS; DNA; FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 33744832602     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja0582105     Document Type: Article

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