Length-dependent energetics of (CTG)n and (CAG)n trinucleotide repeats

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 4065-4077

  Amrane, Samir ^a   Saccà, Barbara ^a,c   Mills, Martin ^b   Chauhan, Madhu ^b   Klump, Horst H ^b   Mergny, Jean Louis ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE; OLIGOMER; ENDONUCLEASE; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; CALORIMETRY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA DENATURATION; METABOLISM; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CALORIMETRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENDONUCLEASES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TEMPERATURE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 23144453090     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki716     Document Type: Article

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