Efforts toward the expansion of the genetic alphabet: Information storage and replication with unnatural hydrophobic base pairs

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 122, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 3274-3287

  Ogawa, Anthony K ^a   Wu, Yiqin ^a   McMinn, Dustin L ^a   Liu, Jianquan ^a   Schultz, Peter G ^a   Romesberg, Floyd E ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE BETA; DNA FRAGMENT; NUCLEIC ACID BASE;

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034639916     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja9940064     Document Type: Article

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