Effect of rubidium and cesium ions on the dimeric quaduplex formed by the Oxytricha nova telomeric repeat oligonucleotide D(GGGGTTTTGGGG)

Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids

Volumn 26, Issue 8-9, 2007, Pages 1129-1132

  Marincola, Flaminia Cesare ^a   Virno, Ada ^b   Randazzo, Antonio ^b   Lai, Adolfo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cesium; DNA; Oxytricha nova; Quadruplex; Rubidium

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CATION; CESIUM ION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; POTASSIUM ION; REPETITIVE DNA; RUBIDIUM ION; SODIUM ION;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CILIATE; DIMERIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OXYTRICHA NOVA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTOZOON; TELOMERE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATIONS, MONOVALENT; CESIUM; DIMERIZATION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HYDROGEN BONDING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; OXYTRICHA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RUBIDIUM; TELOMERE;

STERKIELLA NOVA;

EID: 36848998760     PISSN: 15257770     EISSN: 15322335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15257770701521821     Document Type: Article

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