Thioflavin T as an efficient fluorescence sensor for selective recognition of RNA G-quadruplexes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Xu, Shujuan ^a,b   Li, Qian ^a   Xiang, Junfeng ^a   Yang, Qianfan ^a   Sun, Hongxia ^a   Guan, Aijiao ^a   Wang, Lixia ^a   Liu, Yan ^a   Yu, Lijia ^a   Shi, Yunhua ^a,b   Chen, Hongbo ^a   Tang, Yalin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; RNA; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; THIOFLAVINE;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECTROSCOPY;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENT DYES; G-QUADRUPLEXES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; RNA; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; THIAZOLES;

EID: 84964644976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep24793     Document Type: Article

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