Monitoring multiple distances within a single molecule using switchable FRET

Nature Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 831-836

  Uphoff, Stephan ^a   Holden, Seamus J ^a   Le Reste, Ludovic ^a   Periz, Javier ^a   Van De Linde, Sebastian ^b   Heilemann, Mike ^b   Kapanidis, Achillefs N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOCYANINE; DNA; DNA B; OXAZINE DERIVATIVE; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOTINYLATION; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; PROCEDURES;

BIOTINYLATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 77957689889     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1502     Document Type: Article

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