Crystal structure of a DNA containing the planar, phenoxazine-derived bi-functional spectroscopic probe

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4419-4426

  Edwards, Thomas E ^a   Cekan, Pavol ^a   Reginsson, Gunnar W ^c   Shelke, Sandip A ^b   Ferré D'Amaré, Adrian R ^d   Schiemann, Olav ^c   Sigurdsson, Snorri Th ^b  

^a Emerald BioStructures   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTIDINE; DEOXYGUANOSINE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GUANOSINE; OXAZINE DERIVATIVE; PHENOXAZINE DERIVATIVE; AMINE OXIDE; DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DNA BINDING; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA PROBE; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENERGY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SPIN LABELING; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYCLIC N-OXIDES; DNA; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OXAZINES; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 79961200425     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr015     Document Type: Article

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