Fluorescence intensity decays of 2-aminopurine solutions: Lifetime distribution approach

Analytical Biochemistry

Volumn 377, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 141-149

  Bharill, Shashank ^a   Sarkar, Pabak ^a   Ballin, Jeff D ^b   Gryczynski, Ignacy ^a   Wilson, Gerald M ^b   Gryczynski, Zygmunt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

2 Aminopurine; Lifetime distribution; Nucleic acids; Solvent relaxation; Transient effect

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTROSCOPY; CONFORMATIONS; DECAY (ORGANIC); DICHROISM; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA; SOLVENTS; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

2-AMINOPURINE; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITY DECAYS; FLUORESCENCE PROPERTIES; LIFE-TIME DISTRIBUTION; LORENTZIAN DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; SOLVENT RELAXATION; STEADY STATE FLUORESCENCE PROPERTIES; TRANSIENT EFFECT;

FLUOROPHORES;

2 AMINOPURINE; NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATION; DNA CONFORMATION; FLUORESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CONFORMATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 43049149343     PISSN: 00032697     EISSN: 10960309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2008.03.034     Document Type: Article

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