Thermodynamics of nucleic acids and their interactions with ligands

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 255-306

  Lane, Andrew N ^a   Jenkins, Terence C ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; LIGAND; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA;

CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDRATION; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

DNA; HYDROGEN BONDING; INTERCALATING AGENTS; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 0034536719     PISSN: 00335835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033583500003632     Document Type: Review

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