Synthetic polymers and their potential as genetic materials

BioEssays

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 113-122

  Pinheiro, Vitor B ^a   Loakes, David ^a   Holliger, Philipp ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central dogma; Expanded genetic alphabet; Genetic information; Synthetic genetic polymers; XNA

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; POLYMER; RNA; SYNTHETIC GENETIC POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA REPLICATION; RNA SEQUENCE;

BASE PAIRING; CARBOHYDRATES; DNA; DNA REPLICATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INFORMATION THEORY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; POLYMERS; PURINES; PYRIMIDINES; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84872379019     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201200135     Document Type: Article

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