Binding sites and dynamics of ammonium ions in a telomere repeat DNA quadruplex

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 233-243

  Hud, Nicholas V ^a   Schultze, Peter ^a   Sklenář, Vladimír ^b   Feigon, Juli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

G quartet; Monovalent cation coordination; NMR; Oxytricha nova

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CATION; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; ION CHANNEL; NITROGEN 15; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TELOMERE;

OXYTRICHA; STERKIELLA NOVA;

EID: 0033534681     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2327     Document Type: Article

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