Thermodynamic insights into 2-thiouridine-enhanced RNA hybridization

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 7675-7687

  Larsen, Aaron T ^a   Fahrenbach, Albert C ^a,b   Sheng, Jia ^c   Pian, Julia ^a   Szostak, Jack W ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 THIOURIDINE; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; THIOURIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 2-THIOURIDINE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; NUCLEOSIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHIRALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DNA DENATURATION; ENTHALPY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOSIDES; RNA; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; THERMODYNAMICS; THIOURIDINE;

EID: 84942279269     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv761     Document Type: Article

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