Systematic mutation in the third strand of a purine motif DNA triple helix: A story of a molecule which hides its tail

Nucleosides and Nucleotides

Volumn 17, Issue 9-11, 1998, Pages 1919-1936

  Mills, Martin ^a   Klump, Horst H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; PURINE;

BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA HELIX; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PURINE SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0031729063     PISSN: 07328311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07328319808004731     Document Type: Conference Paper

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