Conformational aspects of an uncharged phosphate analogon built in at the branch-point of a DNA four-way junction

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 262, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 349-357

  Pikkemaat, Jeroen A ^a   Overmars, Franc J J ^a   Dreef Tromp, C Marijke ^a,b   Van Den Elst, Hans ^a   Van Boom, Jacques H ^a   Altona, Cornelis ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NV ORGANON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coaxial stacking; Electrostatic interactions; Holliday junction; Methylene acetal linkage; NMR spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHORUS; PROTON; TRITIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

DNA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PHOSPHORUS ISOTOPES; PROTONS; TRITIUM;

EID: 0030603901     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0518     Document Type: Article

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