UV melting of G-quadruplexes

Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry

Volumn , Issue SUPPL. 37, 2009, Pages

  Mergny, Jean Louis ^a   Lacroix, Laurent ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Quartets; Thermal melting; Thermodynamics; van't Hoff analysis

Indexed keywords

GUANINE QUADRUPLEX;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA DENATURATION; ENTHALPY; FLUORESCENCE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MELTING POINT; NUCLEIC ACID RENATURATION; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETER; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY;

G-QUADRUPLEXES; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 66949118904     PISSN: 19349270     EISSN: 19349289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/0471142700.nc1701s37     Document Type: Review

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