An experimental study of mechanism and specificity of peptide nucleic acid (PNA) binding to duplex DNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 286, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1337-1345

  Kuhn, Heiko ^a   Demidov, Vadim V ^a   Nielsen, Peter E ^b   Frank Kamenetskii, Maxim D ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Homopyrimidine bis PNA; Hoogsteen pairing; Peptide nucleic acid (PNA); PNA DNA complexes; Triplexes

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; OLIGOMER; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRIPLE HELIX;

EID: 0033548529     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2578     Document Type: Article

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