Hydration is an important factor to regulate thermodynamic stability of a DNA duplex under molecular crowding conditions

Chemistry Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 864-865

  Koumoto, Kazuya ^a   Ochiai, Hirofumi ^a   Sugimoto, Naoki ^a,b  

^a Frontier Institute for Biomolecular Engineering Research (FIBER)   (Japan)

^b KONAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 51149084105     PISSN: 03667022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1246/cl.2008.864     Document Type: Article

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