The in vitro nuclear aggregates of polyamines

FEBS Journal

Volumn 276, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2324-2335

  Di Luccia, Aldo ^a,b,c   Picariello, Gianluca ^b   Iacomino, Giuseppe ^b   Formisano, Annarita ^b   Paduano, Luigi ^a   D'Agostino, Luciano ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

DNA interactions; Nanostructures; Polyamines; Self assembly; Supramolecular chemistry

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; NUCLEASE; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; POLYAMINE; PUTRESCINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL AGGREGATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL; ELUTION; ENZYME DEGRADATION; FREEZING; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THAWING;

BUFFERS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; DNA; HUMANS; POLYAMINES; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE;

EID: 63049086400     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.06960.x     Document Type: Article

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