Photocontrol of triple-helix formation by using azobenzene-bearing oligo(thymidine)

Angewandte Chemie - International Edition

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1316-1318

  Asanuma, Hiroyuki ^a   Liang, Xingguo ^a   Yoshida, Takayuki ^a   Yamazawa, Akira ^a   Komiyama, Makoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Azo compounds; DNA structures; Isomerizations; Nucleotides

Indexed keywords

AZOBENZENE DERIVATIVE; DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; THYMIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; DNA STRUCTURE; IRRADIATION; ISOMERISM; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS; TRIPLE HELIX;

EID: 0034599413     PISSN: 14337851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3773(20000403)39:7<1316::AID-ANIE1316>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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