Nucleic acid duplexes incorporating a dissociable covalent base pair

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 96, Issue 26, 1999, Pages 14837-14842

  Gao, Kui ^a   Orgel, Leslie E ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Covalent base pair; Nonenzymatic template directed ligation; Nucleic acid double helix

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COVALENT BOND; DNA HELIX; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

BASE PAIRING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTIDINE; DNA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; NUCLEOSIDES; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 0033592930     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.26.14837     Document Type: Article

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