Synthesis of stable-isotope enriched 5-methylpyrimidines and their use as probes of base reactivity in DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 4068-4074

  Burdzy, Artur ^a   Noyes, Katherine T ^a   Valinluck, Victoria ^a   Sowers, Lawrence C ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYMETHYLURACIL; 5 METHYLCYTOSINE; CARBON 13; CYTOSINE DERIVATIVE; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DEOXYURIDINE; DEUTERIUM; DNA BASE; GLYCOL; GUANINE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; ISOTOPE; METHYL GROUP; NITROGEN 15; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; THYMIDINE; THYMIDINE DERIVATIVE; THYMINE; THYMINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CHEMICAL REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAMINATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON ISOTOPES; DEUTERIUM; DNA; DNA PROBES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROXYL RADICAL; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PYRIMIDINES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; THYMIDINE; THYMINE;

EID: 0037106658     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf520     Document Type: Article

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