Position-dependent effects on stability in tricyclo-DNA modified oligonucleotide duplexes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 373-380

  Ittig, Damian ^a   Gerber, Anna Barbara ^a   Leumann, Christian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENTHALPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 78651285417     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq733     Document Type: Article

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