Intrinsically fluorescent base-discriminating nucleoside analogs

Mini-Reviews in Organic Chemistry

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 378-391

  Dodd, D W ^a   Hudson, R H E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Base discriminating fluorophore; DNA; Luminescence; SNP; Solvatochromatism

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; DAMAGE DETECTION; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

BASE PAIRING; BASE-DISCRIMINATING FLUOROPHORE; BIO-MOLECULAR; DNA DAMAGES; HETEROCYCLES; HYBRIDISATION; MODIFIED NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOSIDE ANALOGS; SNP; SOLVATOCHROMATISM;

FLUOROPHORES;

EID: 70350130625     PISSN: 1570193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157019309789371659     Document Type: Article

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