Recognition of RNA duplexes by chemically modified triplex-forming oligonucleotides

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 6664-6673

  Zhou, Yuan ^a   Kierzek, Elzbieta ^b   Loo, Zi Ping ^a   Antonio, Meraldo ^a   Yau, Yin Hoe ^c   Chuah, York Wieo ^c   Geifman Shochat, Susana ^c   Kierzek, Ryszard ^b   Chen, Gang ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; HYDROGEN BOND; LIGAND BINDING; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

DNA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SODIUM CHLORIDE; THIONUCLEOTIDES; URIDINE;

EID: 84880549834     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt352     Document Type: Article

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