Electronic transition moments of 6-methyl isoxanthopterin- A fluorescent analogue of the nucleic acid base guanine

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 995-1004

  Widom, Julia R ^a   Rappoport, Dmitrij ^b   Perdomo Ortiz, Alejandro ^b   Thomsen, Hanna ^a   Johnson, Neil P ^a   Von Hippel, Peter H ^a   Aspuru Guzik, Alán ^b   Marcus, Andrew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 METHYLISOXANTHOPTERIN; DINUCLEOTIDE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FLUORESCENT DYE; GUANINE DERIVATIVE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; NUCLEOSIDE; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ADSORPTION KINETICS; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; ELECTRIC DIPOLE TRANSITION MOMENT; ENERGY TRANSFER; LINEAR DICHROISM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; RNA CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

DNA, B-FORM; FLUORESCENT DYES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; XANTHOPTERIN;

EID: 84875430995     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1148     Document Type: Article

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