Designed sequence-specific minor groove ligands

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 29, Issue , 2000, Pages 439-461

  Wemmer, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA recognition; Drug design; Molecular recognition

Indexed keywords

CONGOCIDINE; DISTAMYCIN A; IMIDAZOLE; LIGAND; PYRROLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIGAND BINDING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNSCHEDULED DNA SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DISTAMYCINS; DNA; DRUG DESIGN; LIGANDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NETROPSIN; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 0033887479     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.29.1.439     Document Type: Review

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