Structure, internal motions and association-dissociation kinetics of the i-motif dimer of d(5mCCTCACTCC)

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 5471-5481

  Canalia, Muriel ^a   Leroy, Jean Louis ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CHIMIE DES SUBSTANCES NATURELLES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; DNA B; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; IMINE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHORUS 31; PROTON; SUGAR PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; I MOTIF; INTERCALATION COMPLEX; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; KINETICS; MOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

BASE PAIRING; DIMERIZATION; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROTONS;

EID: 26944441311     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki843     Document Type: Article

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