A circular dichroism study of the stability of guanine quadruplexes of thrombin DNA aptamers at presence of K+ and Na+ ions

General Physiology and Biophysics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 271-277

  Poniková, Slavomíra ^a   Antalík, Marián ^b,c   Hianik, Tibor ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism; DNA aptamers; Guanine quadruplex; Potassium; Sodium

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; DNA; FIBRINOGEN; GUANINE; HEPARIN; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION; THROMBIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTHALPY; ENZYME STABILITY; HUMAN; MELTING POINT; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN BINDING; THERMOSTABILITY;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; CATIONS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; FIBRINOGEN; G-QUADRUPLEXES; HEPARIN; HUMANS; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; THROMBIN;

EID: 60149112401     PISSN: 02315882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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