Chapter 2 Applications of Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy to the Study of Nucleic Acid Conformational Dynamics

Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology

Volumn 82, Issue , 2008, Pages 33-69

  Gurunathan, Kaushik ^a   Levitus, Marcia ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DIFFUSION; ENERGY TRANSFER; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

BASE SEQUENCE; DIFFUSION; DNA; ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 53049086242     PISSN: 00796603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6603(08)00002-0     Document Type: Review

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