The influence of locked nucleic acid residues on the thermodynamic properties of 2′-O-methyl RNA/RNA heteroduplexes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 5082-5093

  Kierzek, Elzbieta ^a,b   Ciesielska, Anna ^b   Pasternak, Karol ^b   Mathews, David H ^c   Turner, Douglas H ^a,c   Kierzek, Ryszard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETERODUPLEX; LOCKED NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMISTRY; METHYLATION;

BASE PAIR MISMATCH; METHYLATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA STABILITY; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 25144497136     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki789     Document Type: Article

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