Base sequence and higher-order structure induce the complex excited-state dynamics in DNA

Science

Volumn 322, Issue 5899, 2008, Pages 243-245

  Schwalb, Nina K ^a   Temps, Friedrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

DNA; ELECTRON; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT EFFECT; MODEL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; FEMTOSECOND TIME RESOLVED FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHOTOACCLIMATIZATION; PHOTODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; HYDROGEN BONDING; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PURINES; PYRIMIDINES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 53749094033     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1161651     Document Type: Article

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