2′-azido RNA, a versatile tool for chemical biology: Synthesis, X-ray structure, siRNA applications, click labeling

ACS Chemical Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 581-589

  Fauster, Katja ^a   Hartl, Markus ^a   Santner, Tobias ^a   Aigner, Michaela ^a   Kreutz, Christoph ^a   Bister, Klaus ^a   Ennifar, Eric ^b   Micura, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2' AZIDO RNA; ADENOSINE DERIVATIVE; AZIDE; BRAIN ACID SOLUBLE PROTEIN 1; BRAIN PROTEIN; RNA DERIVATIVE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DERIVATIVE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHICKEN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CLICK CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; STAINING; SYNTHESIS;

AZIDES; CLICK CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 84858633902     PISSN: 15548929     EISSN: 15548937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cb200510k     Document Type: Article

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