Phosphorothioate substrates for the SfiI restriction endonuclease

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 379, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 599-604

  Nobbs, Timothy J ^a   Williams, Shelley A ^a   Connolly, Bernard A ^b   Halford, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diastereoisomer; DNA protein interaction; Oligonucleotide; Phosphodiester hydrolysis; Restriction modification

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; MAGNESIUM ION; MANGANESE; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHOROTHIOIC ACID; PLASMID DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DIASTEREOISOMER; DNA CLEAVAGE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; STEREOISOMERISM; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; THIONUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 0031959950     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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