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Synthesis of Wavelength-shifting DNA Hybridization Probes by Using Photostable Cyanine Dyes
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Kinetic differentiation between homo- and alternating AT DNA by sterically restricted phosphonium dyes
Lidija-Marija Tumir1, Ivo Crnolatac, Todor Deligeorgiev
1Division of Organic Chemistry & Biochemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička c. 54, P. O. Box 180, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia.
Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|February 28, 2012
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