Periodic acceptor excitation spectroscopy of single molecules

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 669-674

  Doose, Sören ^a,d   Heilemann, Mike ^a   Michalet, Xavier ^b   Weiss, Shimon ^b,c   Kapanidis, Achillefs N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternating laser excitation (ALEX); Biomolecular interactions; F rster resonance energy transfer (FRET); Single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HISTOGRAM; LASER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PERIODIC ACCEPTOR EXCITATION SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROSCOPY;

DNA; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 34347404562     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00249-007-0133-7     Document Type: Article

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