Calorimetric unfolding of the bimolecular and i-motif complexes of the human telomere complementary strand, d(C3TA2)4

Biophysical Chemistry

Volumn 126, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 154-164

  Kaushik, Mahima ^a   Suehl, Nathan ^a   Marky, Luis A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

DSC; i Motif DNA; Proton counterion water binding; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; PROTON; WATER;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CALORIMETRY; DNA STRAND; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; MELTING POINT; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTON TRANSPORT; TELOMERE; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

ADENINE; BASE SEQUENCE; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CYTOSINE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PROTONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TELOMERE; THERMODYNAMICS; THYMINE; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 33846622891     PISSN: 03014622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2006.05.031     Document Type: Article

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