Liquid crystal self-assembly of random-sequence DNA oligomers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1110-1115

  Bellini, Tommaso ^a   Zanchetta, Giuliano ^a   Fraccia, Tommaso P ^a   Cerbino, Roberto ^a   Tsai, Ethan ^b   Smith, Gregory P ^b   Moran, Mark J ^b   Walba, David M ^b   Clark, Noel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; OLIGOMER;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; KINETICS; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; KINETICS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 84863020261     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117463109     Document Type: Article

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