High-affinity homologous peptide nucleic acid probes for targeting a quadruplex-forming sequence from a MYC promoter element

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 37, 2007, Pages 10433-10443

  Roy, Subhadeep ^a   Tanious, Farial A ^b   Wilson, W David ^b   Ly, Danith H ^a   Armitage, Bruce A ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR PROBES; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACIDS; QUADRUPLEXES;

BINDING SITES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODELING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PEPTIDES;

DNA;

DNA; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID; RNA;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GENE TARGETING; ONCOGENE MYC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTO ONCOGENE; STOICHIOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; DNA PROBES; G-QUADRUPLEXES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 34548676807     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi700854r     Document Type: Article

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