Selective inhibition of mutant human mitochondrial DNA replication in vitro by peptide nucleic acids

Nature Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 212-215

  Taylor, Robert W ^a   Chinnery, Patrick F ^a   Turnbull, Douglass M ^a   Lightowlers, Robert N ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTANT; MYOBLAST; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL LINE; DEPRESSION, CHEMICAL; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DRUG DESIGN; HUMANS; MERRF SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIA, MUSCLE; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PEPTIDES; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

EID: 0031038812     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0297-212     Document Type: Article

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