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Chem. Commun., 2008, 2004 - 2006, DOI: 10.1039/b801629a


Rigid cyanine dye nucleic acid labels

Adrian Fegan, Pravin S. Shirude and Shankar Balasubramanian


Cyanine dyes attached to DNA via a rigid linker show useful fluorescence and FRET properties without altering the stability of duplex DNA.

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