Folding of the cocaine aptamer studied by EPR and fluorescence spectroscopies using the bifunctional spectroscopic probe Ç

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3990-3995

  Cekan, Pavol ^a   Jonsson, Elvar Örn ^a   Sigurdsson, Snorri Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; C NUCLEOSIDE; COCAINE APTAMER; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; NITROXIDE; NUCLEOSIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HELIX; DNA PROBE; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GAP JUNCTION; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SPIN LABELING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; COCAINE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENT DYES; OXAZINES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 67651183860     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp277     Document Type: Article

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