A real-time assay for monitoring nucleic acid cleavage by quadruplex formation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Kankia, Besik I ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; APTAMER; DEOXYRIBOZYME; DNA; QUADRUPLEX DNA; RNA; THROMBIN APTAMER; TYPE II SITE SPECIFIC DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; DNA CLEAVAGE; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; EVALUATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ECORI; DNA; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA, CATALYTIC; KINETICS; RNA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 33845633723     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl594     Document Type: Article

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