Calorimetry of Nucleic Acids

Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 7.4.1-7.4.12

  Rozners, Eriks ^a   Pilch, Daniel S ^b   Egli, Martin ^c  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

differential scanning calorimetry; enthalpy; entropy; heat capacity; isothermal titration calorimetry

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CALORIMETRY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; HEAT; ISOTHERMAL TITRATION CALORIMETRY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMISTRY; ENTROPY; PROCEDURES;

CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; ENTROPY; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

EID: 84988842018     PISSN: 19349270     EISSN: 19349289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/0471142700.nc0704s63     Document Type: Article

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