Recognition of the four Watson-Crick base pairs in the DNA minor groove by synthetic ligands

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6666, 1998, Pages 468-471

  White, Sarah ^a   Szewczyk, Jason W ^a   Turner, James M ^a   Baird, Eldon E ^a   Dervan, Peter B ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMIDAZOLE; POLYAMIDE; PYRROLE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; DNA BINDING; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACIDS; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA; DNA FOOTPRINTING; HYDROGEN BONDING; IMIDAZOLES; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NYLONS; PYRROLES;

EID: 0032576722     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35106     Document Type: Article

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