The influence of helix morphology on co-operative polyamide backbone conformational flexibility in peptide nucleic acid complexes

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 292, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1017-1038

  Topham, Christopher M ^a,b   Smith, Jeremy C ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^c Lab de Simulat Moléculaire   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conformational analysis; Molecular modelling; Nucleic acids; PNA peptide nucleic acid

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID; POLYAMIDE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0033536574     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3131     Document Type: Article

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