Single-molecule three-color FRET with both negligible spectral overlap and long observation time

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Lee, Sanghwa ^a   Lee, Jinwoo ^a   Hohng, Sungchul ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANINE DYE; FLUORESCENT DYE; CARBOCYANINE; DNA; OXYGEN;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PROCESS MONITORING; QUALITY CONTROL; ABSORPTION; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; GENETICS; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TIME;

ALEXA;

ABSORPTION; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOCYANINES; COLOR; DNA; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; LASERS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OXYGEN; PHOTOBLEACHING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77957903226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012270     Document Type: Article

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