Nucleic acid fluorescent probes for biological sensing

Applied Spectroscopy

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1249-1261

  Su, Xin ^a   Xiao, Xianjin ^a   Zhang, Chen ^a   Zhao, Meiping ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; APTAMERS; BIOLOGICAL SENSING; BIOSENSING; BIOSENSING ASSAYS; COMPLEMENTARY STRAND; FLUORESCENCE ANISOTROPY; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIMES; FLUORESCENT PROBES; INTENSITY-BASED; NUCLEIC ACID ENZYMES; PROBE-BASED; SIGNAL AMPLIFICATIONS; SINGLE-STRANDED DNA; SMALL MOLECULES; TARGET BINDING; WHOLE CELL;

BINDING ENERGY; BIOMOLECULES; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; ENZYMES; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

FLUORESCENT DYE; NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; REVIEW; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ANIMALS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEIC ACID PROBES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84869195326     PISSN: 00037028     EISSN: 19433530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1366/12-06803     Document Type: Review

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