The effects of unnatural base pairs and mispairs on DNA duplex stability and solvation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 4757-4763

  Hwang, Gil Tae ^a   Hari, Yoshiyuki ^b   Romesberg, Floyd E ^b  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PYRIDINE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE 34DMPY; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE 3MPY; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE 45DMPY; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE 4MPY; PYRIDINE DERIVATIVE 5MPY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; BASE PAIRING; DERIVATIZATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLVATION; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY;

BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BASE PAIRING; DNA; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PYRIDINES; SOLVENTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 69049104260     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp467     Document Type: Article

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