DNA curvature at A tracts containing a non-polar thymine mimic

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1059-1066

  Maki, Angèle ^a   Brownewell, Floyd E ^a,b   Liu, Dongyu ^a,c   Kool, Eric T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBANY MOLECULAR RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^c GENZYME CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATION; CURVED DNA; HYDROGEN; METAL ION; PYRIMIDINE; THYMIDINE DERIVATIVE; THYMINE; TOLUENE DERIVATIVE;

BASE PAIRING; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRICITY; EXPERIMENTAL LIGATION; GENE INTERACTION; HYDROGEN BOND; HYPOTHESIS; MOLECULAR PROBE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLVATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ADENINE; DNA; ELECTROSTATICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; THYMINE; TOLUENE;

EID: 0037326838     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg172     Document Type: Review

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