Intercalating Nucleic Acids: The Influence of Linker Length and Intercalator Type on Their Duplex Stabilities

Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 207-225

  Christensen, Ulf B ^a,b   Wamberg, Michael ^a   El Essawy, Farag A G ^a   Ismail, Abd El Hamid ^a   Nielsen, Christina B ^a   Filichev, Vyacheslav V ^a   Jessen, Carsten H ^a   Petersen, Michael ^a   Pedersen, Erik B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Unest A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

7,9 Dimethylpyrido 3 ,2 :4,5 thieno 3,2 d pyrimidine 4(1H) one; DNA duplex stability of intercalating nucleic acids; Intercalating nucleic acids; Oligonucleotides with covalently bound intercalators; Pyrene intercalators

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; INTERCALATING AGENT; NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PYRENE;

ARTICLE; COVALENT BOND; CROSS LINKING; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; MOLECULAR STABILITY; SYNTHESIS;

HEAT; INTERCALATING AGENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

EID: 1542784471     PISSN: 15257770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/NCN-120027829     Document Type: Article

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