Unusual DNA duplex and hairpin motifs

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2461-2474

  Chou, Shan Ho ^a,b   Chin, Ko Hsin ^b   Wang, Andrew H J ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; CYTOSINE; DNA B; DNA Z; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GUANINE; LIGAND; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; THYMIDINE; THYMINE; DNA; HETERODUPLEX;

BASE MISPAIRING; BASE PAIRING; CIS TRANS ISOMERISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; DRUG DNA BINDING; DRUG DNA INTERACTION; HYDROGEN BOND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES;

EID: 0037705472     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg367     Document Type: Review

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