Duplex formation of the simplified nucleic acid GNA

ChemBioChem

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 927-932

  Schlegel, Mark K ^a   Peritz, Adam E ^a   Kittigowittana, Krisada ^b   Zhang, Lilu ^b   Meggers, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Acyclic backbone; DNA; Duplex formation; GNA; Nucleic acids; Simplified backbone

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GLYCIDOL; GLYCOL; NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGOMER; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHORAMIDIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PROPYLENE; DNA; NUCLEOSIDE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PROPANEDIOL DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENANTIOMER; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; RNA SEQUENCE; STEREOSPECIFICITY; SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEREOISOMERISM; TEMPERATURE;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; NUCLEOSIDES; PHOSPHORIC ACID ESTERS; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEREOISOMERISM; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 34447559698     PISSN: 14394227     EISSN: 14397633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200600435     Document Type: Article

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