L-nucleotides and 8-methylguanine of d(C1m8G2C3G4C 5LG6LC7G8C9G 10)2 act cooperatively to promote a left-handed helix under physiological salt conditions

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 6986-6995

  Cherrak, Ilham ^d,e   Mauffret, Olivier ^d,e   Santamaria, Fanny ^a   Hocquet, Alexandre ^b   Ghomi, Mahmoud ^b   Rayner, Bernard ^c   Fermandjian, Serge ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; GUANINE DERIVATIVE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHIRALITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA HELIX; DNA METHYLATION; ENANTIOMER; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOSTABILITY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA, Z-FORM; GUANINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; NUCLEOTIDES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0345099565     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg893     Document Type: Article

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