The contribution of cytosine protonation to the stability of parallel DNA triple helices

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 275, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 811-822

  Asensio, Juan Luis ^a   Lane, Andrew N ^a   Dhesi, Jaswant ^b   Bergqvist, Simon ^b   Brown, Tom ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cytosine protonation; DNA triplexes; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA; PHOSPHATE;

ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ARTICLE; DNA DENATURATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTHALPY; HYDROGEN BOND; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS; TRIPLE HELIX; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 0032488878     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1520     Document Type: Article

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