Lighting up left-handed Z-DNA: Photoluminescent carbon dots induce DNA B to Z transition and perform DNA logic operations

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 7987-7996

  Feng, Lingyan ^a,b   Zhao, Andong ^a,b   Ren, Jinsong ^a,b   Qu, Xiaogang ^a,b  

^a CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; DNA B; DNA Z; NANOPARTICLE; CARBON; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA BINDING; DNA CONFORMATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDROPHOBICITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; ZETA POTENTIAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE;

CARBON; DNA, B-FORM; DNA, Z-FORM; FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84886829372     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt575     Document Type: Article

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