Caged DNA does not aggregate in high ionic strength solutions

Bioconjugate Chemistry

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 624-628

  Trubetskoy, Vladimir S ^a   Loomis, Aaron ^a   Slattum, Paul M ^a   Hagstrom, James E ^a   Budker, Vladimir G ^b   Wolf, Jon A ^b  

^a Mirus Bio Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENE THERAPY; SOLVENT EFFECT; VECTOR;

AGGREGATES; GENE THERAPY; IONIC STRENGTH;

CONDENSATION PROCESS; CROSS LINKING; CROSSLINKER; HIGH IONIC STRENGTH; NONVIRAL GENE THERAPY; POLYCATIONS; SALT SOLUTION; VIRAL PARTICLES;

DNA;

EID: 0033167392     PISSN: 10431802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bc9801530     Document Type: Article

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