Electrophoretic mobility is a reporter of hairpin structure in single-stranded DNA oligomers

Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 38, 2007, Pages 10931-10941

  Stellwagen, Earle ^a   Abdulla, Arian ^a,b   Dong, Qian ^a   Stellwagen, Nancy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Northwestern Oklahoma State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENATURATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; MELTING POINT; NUCLEOTIDES; OLIGOMERS; POLYACRYLATES;

FREE SOLUTION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GELS; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; THERMAL MELTING;

DNA;

ACETIC ACID; OLIGOMER; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; SODIUM ION;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ALGORITHMS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; BUFFERS; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; SALTS; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; UREA;

EID: 34648828234     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi701058f     Document Type: Article

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