Natural antisense RNA/Target RNA interactions: Possible models for antisense oligonucleotide drug design

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 751-753

  Delihas, Nicholas ^a   Rokita, Steven E ^a,b   Zheng, Ping ^a,c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense; Non canonical base pairs; RNA RNA interactions

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA;

BASE PAIRING; DRUG DESIGN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DRUG DESIGN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0030752530     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0897-751     Document Type: Article

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