Analysis of Thermal Melting Curves

Oligonucleotides

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 515-537

  Mergny, Jean Louis ^a   Lacroix, Laurent ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGOMER; DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGOMER; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; POLYNUCLEOTIDE; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENTROPY; MELTING POINT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 1542303744     PISSN: 15454576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/154545703322860825     Document Type: Review

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