NMR study of ammonium ion binding to d[G3T4G 4]2 and d[G4(T4G4) 3] G-quadruplexes

Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids

Volumn 26, Issue 10-12, 2007, Pages 1547-1551

  Podbevsek, Peter ^a   Sket, Primoz ^a   Plavec, Janez ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Ammonium ion; Binding constants; G Quadruplex; NMR

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

G-QUADRUPLEXES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 36948999393     PISSN: 15257770     EISSN: 15322335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15257770701545358     Document Type: Article

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