Selenium modification of nucleic acids: Preparation of oligonucleotides with incorporated 2′-SeMe-uridine for crystallographic phasing of nucleic acid structures

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 647-651

  Pallan, Pradeep S ^a   Egli, Martin ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSE; RNA; SELENIUM; SELENOMETHIONINE; URIDINE DERIVATIVE; URIDINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DERIVATIZATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; SOLID PHASE SYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; SYNTHESIS;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; SELENOMETHIONINE; URIDINE;

EID: 34347271702     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.75     Document Type: Article

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