A small unstructured nucleic acid disrupts a trinucleotide repeat hairpin

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 413, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 532-536

  Ávila Figueroa, Amalia ^a   Cattie, Douglas ^b   Delaney, Sarah ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Molecular beacon; Polyglutamine disorders; Strand invasion; Trinucleotide repeat expansion

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; NUCLEIC ACID; THYMINE; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HAIRPIN; FLUORESCENCE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTICAL MELTING METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

DNA; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 80053652057     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.08.130     Document Type: Article

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