Assessing the Amount of Quadruplex Structures Present within G2-Tract Synthetic Random-Sequence DNA Libraries

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  McManus, Simon A ^a,b   Li, Yingfu ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; GUANINE; DNA; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA DENATURATION; DNA FOLDING; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR STABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMOSTABILITY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENE LIBRARY; THERMODYNAMICS;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; G-QUADRUPLEXES; GENE LIBRARY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84878159703     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064131     Document Type: Article

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