Effects of Sodium Ions on DNA Duplex Oligomers: Improved Predictions of Melting Temperatures

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3537-3554

  Owczarzy, Richard ^a   You, Yong ^a   Moreira, Bernardo G ^a   Manthey, Jeffrey A ^a   Huang, Lingyan ^a   Behlke, Mark A ^a   Walder, Joseph A ^a  

^a INTEGRATED DNA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONDENSATION; DNA; MELTING; POLYMERS; SODIUM;

DUPLEX MELTING; SALT CORRECTION FUNCTION;

OLIGOMERS;

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; SODIUM ION;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DNA DENATURATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BASE PAIRING; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CATIONS, MONOVALENT; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; GUANINE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SALTS; SODIUM; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 1642380887     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi034621r     Document Type: Article

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