Rigid spin-labeled nucleoside Ç: A nonperturbing EPR probe of nucleic acid conformation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 5946-5954

  Cekan, Pavol ^a   Smith, Alyssa L ^b   Barhate, Nivrutti ^b   Robinson, Bruce H ^b   Sigurdsson, Snorri Th ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; C NUCLEOSIDE; CYTOSINE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GUANINE; OLIGOMER; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATION; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC STABILITY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE PAIR MISMATCH; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYCLIC N-OXIDES; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DNA; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 54549092772     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn562     Document Type: Article

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