Monovalent cation size and DNA conformational stability

Biochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3084-3094

  Stellwagen, Earle ^a   Muse, Joseph M ^b   Stellwagen, Nancy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYLAMMONIUM IONS; CATION CONCENTRATIONS; CATION SIZE; CONFORMATIONAL STABILITIES; DNA HAIRPIN; DNA MODEL; HYDROPHOBIC INTERACTIONS; MELTING TEMPERATURES; MONOVALENT CATIONS; RANDOM COIL CONFORMATION; SITE-SPECIFIC; TETRABUTYLAMMONIUM; TETRAETHYLAMMONIUM; TETRAMETHYLAMMONIUM; THERMAL STABILITY;

ALGEBRA; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DNA; HYDROPHOBICITY; MELTING POINT; METAL MELTING; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OLIGOMERS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SHIELDING; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

POSITIVE IONS;

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; ALKYLAMMONIUM; AMMONIA; DNA; LITHIUM ION; MONOVALENT CATION; OLIGOMER; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM ION; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; SODIUM ION; TETRAMETHYLAMMONIUM; TETRAPROPYLAMMONIUM; TETRYLAMMONIUM; THYMINE; TRIS[HYDROXYMETHYL]AMINOMETHANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAPILLARY ZONE ELECTROPHORESIS; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA HAIRPIN; HYDROPHOBICITY; ISOTHERM; MELTING POINT; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOSTABILITY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CATIONS, MONOVALENT; DNA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; METALS, ALKALI; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PHOSPHATES; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLUTIONS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79953907770     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi1015524     Document Type: Article

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