Site-specific incorporation of nitroxide spin-labels into 2′-positions of nucleic acids

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1954-1962

  Edwards, Thomas E ^a   Sigurdsson, Snorri Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; NITROXIDE; NUCLEIC ACID; SINGLE STRANDED RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SPIN LABELING;

CYCLIC N-OXIDES; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; RNA, CATALYTIC; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 34548150271     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.273     Document Type: Article

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