Wiley, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 12(48), p. 2188-2191, 2009
Wiley, Angewandte Chemie, 12(121), p. 2222-2225, 2009
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Lighting up: A G-quadruplex-specific fluorescent probe was designed combining the specificity of the pyridodicarboxamide motif for guanine quadruplexes and the fluorescence properties of thiazole orange. While the assembly of the two partners through a flexible linker leads to a nonselective probe, merging them in a single, rigid scaffold leads to a dye that elicits the properties required for G-quadruplex sensing.