Site-specific DNA structural and dynamic features revealed by nucleotide-independent nitroxide probes

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 36, 2009, Pages 8540-8550

  Popova, Anna M ^a   Kálai, Tamás ^b   Hideg, Kálmán ^b   Qin, Peter Z ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^c LJS 251 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DUPLEXES; DNA MOLECULES; DYNAMIC FEATURES; ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; NITROXIDES; PHOSPHOROTHIOATES; ROTATIONAL MOTION; SITE-DIRECTED SPIN LABELING; SITE-SPECIFIC; UNPAIRED ELECTRONS;

DNA; ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; GENES; NUCLEOTIDES; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARAMAGNETISM; PROBES;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; NITROXIDE; PHOSPHOROTHIOIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DENATURATION; DNA PROBE; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIN LABELING;

DNA PROBES; FREE RADICALS; NITROGEN OXIDES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; PHOSPHOROTHIOATE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPIN LABELS; STEREOISOMERISM; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 70149120741     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi900860w     Document Type: Article

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