Time-resolved FRET and FLIM of four-way DNA junctions

Journal of Fluorescence

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 839-845

  Mountford, C P ^a   Mount, A R ^a   Evans, S A G ^a   Su, T J ^a   Dickinson, P ^a   Buck, A H ^a   Campbell, C J ^a   Terry, J G ^a   Beattie, J S ^a   Walton, A J ^a   Ghazal, P ^a   Crain, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy transfer; Fluorescence; Imaging; Nucleic acids

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONFORMATIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

CRITICAL ION CONCENTRATION; DNA JUNCTION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LIFETIME DECAYS;

DNA;

CRUCIFORM DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; METHODOLOGY;

DNA, CRUCIFORM; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 33751532700     PISSN: 10530509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10895-006-0125-5     Document Type: Article

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