The crystal structure of an 'All Locked' nucleic acid duplex

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 6729-6736

  Eichert, André ^a   Behling, Katja ^a   Betzel, Christian ^b   Erdmann, Volker A ^a   Fürste, Jens P ^a   Förster, Charlotte ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCKED NUCLEIC ACID; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; THERMOSTABILITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RNA; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 78049361408     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq505     Document Type: Article

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