Condensation of oligonucleotides assembled into nicked and gapped duplexes: Potential structures for oligonucleotide delivery

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 143-151

  Sarkar, Tumpa ^b   Conwell, Christine C ^b   Harvey, Lilia C ^a   Santai, Catherine T ^b   Hud, Nicholas V ^b  

^a AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; COBALT CHLORIDE; DENDRIMER; DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; LIPOSOME; METHENAMINE; NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDE; PLASMID DNA; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; POLYLYSINE; RNA; CHLORIDE; COBALT; HEXAMINECOBALT (III) TRICHLORIDE; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENE VECTOR; LIGHT SCATTERING; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE TRANSFER; KINETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CHLORIDES; COBALT; DNA; GENE PRODUCTS, TAT; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; KINETICS; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; POLYLYSINE;

EID: 13744254547     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki156     Document Type: Article

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