title: Structure and excimer fluorescence of helical-pyrene-arrays assembled on duplex RNA.
abstract: The helical pyrene arrangement on duplex RNA has been evident from the computer simulations that gave the circular dichroism (CD) bands being well consistent with the experimentally observed CD. The pyrene-arrays exhibit the strong excimer fluorescence whose intensity is dependent on the nucleotide sequences and contexts of duplex RNA.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha, Himeji, Hyogo 671-2201, Japan. mitunobu@eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp
authors.forename: Mitsunobu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Kazushige
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamana
authors.forename: Yukinori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Simomura
authors.forename: Yukinori
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ohtoshi
mesh_terms: D002942:Circular Dichroism; D003198:Computer Simulation; D005453:Fluorescence; D011721:Pyrenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D012330:RNA, Double-Stranded / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011721:Pyrenes; D012330:RNA, Double-Stranded