Characterization of the 6-methyl isoxanthopterin (6-MI) base analog dimer, a spectroscopic probe for monitoring guanine base conformations at specific sites in nucleic acids

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1191-1202

  Datta, Kausiki ^a,b   Johnson, Neil P ^a,c,d   Villani, Giuseppe ^c,d   Marcus, Andrew H ^a   Von Hippel, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b HOFFMANN LA ROCHE INC   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 METHYL ISOXANTHOPTERIN; BETAINE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ISOXANTHOPTERIN; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA BINDING; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; QUANTUM YIELD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROSCOPY;

DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA REPLICATION; FLUORESCENT DYES; GUANINE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; XANTHOPTERIN;

EID: 84856833509     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr858     Document Type: Article

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