Temperature-dependent FRET spectroscopy for the high-throughput analysis of self-assembled DNA nanostructures in real time

Nature Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 271-285

  Saccà, Barbara ^a   Meyer, Rebecca ^a   Niemeyer, Christof M ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COOLING; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA PROBE; DNA STRUCTURE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MACROMOLECULE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MICROCALORIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

DNA; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; NANOSTRUCTURES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 60549107903     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.220     Document Type: Article

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