Nanoparticles featuring amino acid-functionalized side chains as DNA receptors

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-18

  Ghosh, Partha S ^a   Han, Gang ^a   Erdogan, Belma ^a   Rosado, Olga ^a   Krovi, Sai Archana ^a   Rotello, Vincent M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid; DNA; Nanoparticle

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE; MODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACIDS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; FATTY ACIDS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOPARTICLES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRITYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 34447345190     PISSN: 17470277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0285.2007.00534.x     Document Type: Article

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