[35]  M. C. R. Buff, F. Schäfer, B. Wulffen, J. Müller, B. Pötzsch, A. Heckel, G. Mayer
        Dependence of aptamer activity on opposed terminal extensions: improvement of light-regulation efficiency
        Nucleic Acids Res. 2010, 38, 2111-2118

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[34]  G. Mayer, A. Lohberger, S. Butzen, M. Pofahl, M. Blind, A. Heckel
       From selection to caged aptamers: Identification of light-dependent ssDNA aptamers targeting cytohesin
       Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 2009, 19, 6561-6564

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[33]  J. Hoffmann, T. L. Schmidt, A. Heckel, B. Brutschy
        Probing the limits of liquid droplet laser desorption mass spectrometry in the analysis of oligonucleotides and nucleic acids
        Rapid Commun. Mass. Spectrom. 2009, 23, 2176-2180

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[32]  A. Heckel, G. Mayer
         Light-responsive nucleic acids for the spatiotemporal control of biological processes
       in The Chemical Biology of Nucleic Acids, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2010

[31] T. L. Schmidt, A. Heckel
       Pyrrole/imidazole-polyamide anchors for DNA tertiary interactions
        Small 2009,5,1517-1520

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[30]  P. Jayapal, G. Mayer, A. Heckel, F. Wennmohs
       Activity relationships of a caged thrombin-binding DNA aptamer: Insight gained from molecular dynamics simulation studies
        J. Struct. Biol. 2009, 166, 241-250

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[29]  M. Buff, T. Mack, A. Heckel
        Lightactivatable nucleic acids "caged" at the nucleobases
        Chimia 2009, 63, 261-264

[28] G. Mayer, J. Müller, T. Mack, D. F. Freitag, T. Höver, B. Pötzsch, A. Heckel
       Differential regulation of protein subdomain activity with caged bivalent ligands
       ChemBioChem 2009, 10, 654-657

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[27]  A. Heckel
       Shedding light on nucleic acids and DNA under construction
       Systems Chemistry

        Link: 

[26]  G. Mayer, A. Heckel, B. Pötzsch
        Aptamer-basierte Reagenzien
        Patent application DE 10 2007 011 702.9