Thrombin-aptamer recognition: A revealed ambiguity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 7858-7867

  Krauss, Irene Russo ^a   Merlino, Antonello ^a,b   Giancola, Concetta ^a   Randazzo, Antonio ^a   Mazzarella, Lelio ^a,b   Sica, Filomena ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; THROMBIN;

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; THROMBIN;

EID: 80053183285     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr522     Document Type: Article

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