Circular dichroism study of DNA binding by a potential anticancer peptide nucleic acid targeted against the MYCN oncogene

Chirality

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 494-500

  Faccini, Andrea ^a   Tortori, Andrea ^b   Tedeschi, Tullia ^a   Sforza, Stefano ^a   Tonelli, Roberto ^b   Pession, Andrea ^b   Corradini, Roberto ^a,c   Marchelli, Rosangela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antigene; Antitumor; Circular dichroism; DNA recognition; MYCN; PNA; Strand invasion

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DNA; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA STRUCTURE; DRUG DNA BINDING; NEUROBLASTOMA; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE C MYB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMOSTABILITY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; DNA, ANTISENSE; GENES, MYC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACIDS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 39749188191     PISSN: 08990042     EISSN: 1520636X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/chir.20489     Document Type: Article

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