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Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1591-1592

  Siegel, Jay S ^a   Tor, Yitzhak ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINES; DNA SEQUENCES; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO GROUP; DIAMINOPYRIMIDINE; MOLECULAR MUTATION;

GENES;

RNA;

CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS;

NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 18844414848     PISSN: 14770520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b500921a     Document Type: Review

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