A rule of seven in Watson-Crick base-pairing of mismatched sequences

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 623-627

  Cisse, Ibrahim I ^a,c   Kim, Hajin ^a,b   Ha, Taekjip ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; BASE PAIRING; CELL VACUOLE; DNA STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE SILENCING; KINETICS; MELTING POINT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WATSON CRICK BASE PAIRING;

BASE PAIR MISMATCH; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA;

EID: 84861892611     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.2294     Document Type: Article

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