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Pyrene-Zipper Array Assembled via RNA Duplex Formation

Mitsunobu Nakamura, Yohei Murakami, Kazuhiro Sasa, H Hayashi, Kazushige Yamana

Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2008 · 73 citations · 25 references

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Abstract

We describe a new strategy for multipyrene modification of RNA sequences to form unique structures of pyrene aromatic arrays, the "pyrene-zipper array", on duplex RNA that exhibits remarkably strong excimer fluorescence.

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