Combinatorial fluorescence energy transfer molecular beacons for probing nucleic acid sequences

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 896-902

  Li, Xiaoxu ^a   Li, Zengmin ^a,b   Martí, Angel A ^b   Jockusch, Steffen ^b   Stevens, Nathan ^c   Akins, Daniel L ^c   Turro, Nicholas J ^b   Ju, Jingyue ^a,b  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYANINE DYE; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR BEACON; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STEADY STATE;

EID: 33749532108     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b605936h     Document Type: Article

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