Molecular probes: Insights into design and analysis from computational and physical chemistry

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 46-50

  Mitchell, Felicity L ^a   Marks, Gabriel E ^a   Bichenkova, Elena V ^a   Douglas, Kenneth T ^a   Bryce, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational chemistry; Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET); Fluorescence based molecular probe; Molecular Dynamics simulation; Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP); Structure based design of molecular diagnostics

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BASE SEQUENCE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR PROBES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTANT PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 39449115982     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0360046     Document Type: Article

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