title: Photon cascade with clip-on fluorophores.
abstract: Bird on a wire: a recent study by Rant and Burley showed that it is possible to transfer excited-state energy along double-stranded DNA by arranging fluorophore relays with base-pair precision through Dervan-polyamides in a cascade-like process. The resulting assembly acts as the largest DNA-based photonic wire yet.
authors.affiliation: Cluster of Excellence Macromolecular Complexes, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Friedrich
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Heckel
mesh_terms: D001583:Benzoxazoles / Q000737:chemistry; D002232:Carbocyanines / Q000737:chemistry; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D031541:Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry*; D017785:Photons; D011804:Quinolines / Q000737:chemistry; D013388:Succinimides / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D001583:Benzoxazoles; D002232:Carbocyanines; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; C510619:Pacific Blue succinimidyl ester; D011804:Quinolines; D013388:Succinimides; C089187:cyanine dye 3; C097015:oxazole yellow; D004247:DNA