Hydrophobicities of the nucleic acid bases: Distribution coefficients from water to cyclohexane

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 280, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 421-430

  Shih, Phoebe ^a   Pedersen, Lee G ^b,c   Gibbs, Paul R ^a   Wolfenden, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c Department of Process Biochemistry   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclohexane; Free energy of transfer; Hydrophobicity; Nucleic acid bases; Partition coefficients

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AMINO ACID; CYCLOHEXANE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; HYPOXANTHINE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; OXOACID; PURINE; PYRIMIDINONE DERIVATIVE; SOLVENT; TETRAHYDROFURAN DERIVATIVE; THYMINE; URACIL; WATER;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODEL; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SOLVATION;

EID: 0032541103     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1880     Document Type: Article

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