Conformational features of peptidic nucleic acids for the rational design of biologically active PNAs and hybrid PNA-oligonucleotides

Minerva Biotecnologica

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 175-185

  Saviano, Michele ^a   Bucci, Enrico ^a   Romanelli, Alessandra ^a   Pedone, Carlo ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chimeras; Circular dichroism; NMR; Peptide nucleic acids

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID; RNA;

BINDING AFFINITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; THERMOSTABILITY;

EID: 0033388632     PISSN: 11204826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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