Conformationally rigid nucleoside probes help understand the role of sugar pucker and nucleobase orientation in the thrombin-binding aptamer

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 5589-5601

  Saneyoshi, Hisao ^a   Mazzini, Stefania ^b   Aviñó, Anna ^c   Portella, Guillem ^d   González, Carlos ^e   Orozco, Modesto ^d,e,f   Marquez, Víctor E ^g   Eritja, Ramon ^c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^e BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^g INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE INSERTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84962361002     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp598     Document Type: Article

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