Boronic acid-modified DNA that changes fluorescent properties upon carbohydrate binding.
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SUBMITTER: Yang X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2917622 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Boronic acid-modified DNA that changes fluorescent properties upon carbohydrate binding.
Yang Xiaochuan X Dai Chaofeng C Molina Angie Dayan Calderon AD Wang Binghe B
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 20100115 7
A long wavelength boronic acid-modified TTP (NB-TTP) has been synthesized and enzymatically incorporated into DNA. Such DNA shows intrinsic fluorescent changes upon carbohydrate addition. ...[more]
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