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Structure‐Sensitive and Self‐Assembled Helical Pyrene Array Based on DNA Architecture
Author(s) -
MayerEnthart Elke,
Wagenknecht HansAchim
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200504210
Subject(s) - pyrene , dna , fluorescence , sequence (biology) , chemistry , base pair , biophysics , nanotechnology , materials science , biochemistry , biology , physics , optics , organic chemistry
Five times is more than fivefold : The helical π‐stacked array of pyrene‐modified uridine shows a strong fluorescence enhancement that is structure sensitive to base mismatches. As the fluorescence is highly sequence dependent, it can serve as a structure‐sensitive probe for DNA.