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Synthesis of Wavelength-shifting DNA Hybridization Probes by Using Photostable Cyanine Dyes
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Oligodeoxynucleotides incorporating structurally simple 5-alkynyl-2'-deoxyuridines fluorometrically respond to
Robert H E Hudson1, Arash Ghorbani-Choghamarani
1Department of Chemistry, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. robert.hudson@uwo.ca
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
|June 7, 2007
Abstract:
Selected 5-ethynyl derivatives of 2'-deoxyuridine are shown to fluorometrically respond to hybridization and selectively base-pair to adenine whilst maintaining duplex stability.
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