Enhancement of strand invasion by oligonucleotides through manipulation of backbone charge

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 14, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 1700-1704

  Smulevitch, Sergey V ^a   Simmons, Carla G ^a   Norton, James C ^a   Wise, Teresa W ^a   Corey, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Macromolecular engineering; Oligonucleotide; Peptide nucleic acid; Strand invasion

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SUPERCOILING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; OLIGOPEPTIDES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0029829006     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1296-1700     Document Type: Article

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