Pairing of isolated nucleic-acid bases in the absence of the DNA backbone

Nature

Volumn 408, Issue 6815, 2000, Pages 949-951

  Nir, Eyal ^a   Kleinermanns, Karl ^b   De Vries, Mattanjah S ^a,c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; NUCLEOTIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEGRADATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GAS; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VAPORIZATION;

BASE PAIRING; CYTOSINE; DNA; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; GASES; GUANINE;

EID: 0034700502     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35050053     Document Type: Article

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