Comparison of the thermodynamics and base-pair dynamics of a full LNA:DNA duplex and of the isosequential DNA:DNA duplex

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 35, 2009, Pages 8473-8482

  Bruylants, Gilles ^a   Boccongelli, Marina ^a   Snoussi, Karim ^b,c   Bartik, Kristin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE-PAIR OPENING DYNAMICS; BINDING EVENTS; CD MEASUREMENTS; COMPLEMENTARY STRAND; DNA DUPLEXES; DUPLEX FORMATION; DUPLEX STRUCTURES; DYNAMIC DATA; HAIRPIN STRUCTURES; HELICAL CONFORMATION; HETERODUPLEX; HYBRID DUPLEX; HYBRIDIZATION THERMODYNAMICS; IMINO PROTONS; LOCKED NUCLEIC ACID; NMR SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE ANALOGUES; STABILITY CONSTANTS; THERMAL STABILITY; THERMODYNAMIC PROFILES; THERMODYNAMICAL STUDY;

AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; DNA; GENES; LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SYSTEM STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; LOCKED NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; ENTHALPY; HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY;

BASE PAIRING; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 69749100608     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi900615z     Document Type: Article

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