Systematic exploration of a class of hydrophobic unnatural base pairs yields multiple new candidates for the expansion of the genetic alphabet

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 10235-10244

  Dhami, Kirandeep ^a   Malyshev, Denis A ^a   Ordoukhanian, Phillip ^a   Kubelka, Tomáš ^b   Hocek, Michal ^b,c   Romesberg, Floyd E ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID BASE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; GENETIC ALPHABET; GENETICS; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; UNNATURAL BASE PAIR; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC CODE;

BASE PAIRING; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; DNA; GENETIC CODE; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS;

EID: 84921342695     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku715     Document Type: Article

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