DNA hairpins destabilize duplexes primarily by promoting melting rather than by inhibiting hybridization

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 6181-6190

  Schreck, John S ^a   Ouldridge, Thomas E ^a,b   Romano, Flavio ^a   Šulc, Petr ^c   Shaw, Liam P ^a   Louis, Ard A ^a   Doye, Jonathan P K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; DNA DENATURATION; DNA HAIRPIN; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION;

BASE PAIRING; DNA; KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84939632443     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv582     Document Type: Article

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