Methylation of adenine bases at the N6H2 groups decreases the melting temperature of the DNA duplex independently of the nucleotide sequence

Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B: Physical and Biological Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 210-215

  Yamasaki, Tomoko ^a,b   Yamasaki, Kazuhiko ^a   Suzuki, Masashi ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA; Melting temperature; Methylation; Replication; Thermal denaturation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644600167     PISSN: 03862208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2183/pjab.74.210     Document Type: Article

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