Thionucleobases as intrinsic photoaffinity probes of nucleic acid structure and nucleic acid-protein interactions

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 109-124

  Favre, Alain ^a   Saintomé, Carole ^a   Fourrey, Jean Louis ^b   Clivio, Pascale ^b   Laugâa, Philippe ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

4 thiouridine; Interaction; Nucleic acid; Photoaffinity labelling; Protein; Structure; Thionucleobases

Indexed keywords

4 THIOURACIL; DINUCLEOTIDE; MERCAPTOPURINE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOZYME; TIOGUANINE;

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOPROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PHOTOAFFINITY LABELS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RNA; THIONUCLEOTIDES;

HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS;

EID: 0032005336     PISSN: 10111344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1011-1344(97)00116-4     Document Type: Article

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