Recent Progress Toward the Templated Synthesis and Directed Evolution of Sequence-Defined Synthetic Polymers

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 265-276

  Brudno, Yevgeny ^a   Liu, David R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CHEMBIO

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHATE; POLYMER; RIBOSE;

CHEMISTRY; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; SYNTHESIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; NUCLEOTIDES; PHOSPHATES; POLYMERS; RIBOSE; RIBOSOMES;

EID: 62649174621     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2009.02.004     Document Type: Review

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