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Nucleic Acid Thermodynamics Derived from Mechanical Unzipping Experiments
Life, 2022 Force-spectroscopy techniques have led to significant progress in studying the physicochemical properties of biomolecules that are not accessible in bulk assays. The application of piconewton forces with laser optical tweezers to single nucleic acids has
Paolo Rissone, Felix Ritort
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MeltR software provides facile determination of nucleic acid thermodynamics
Biophysical Reports, 2023 Thermodenaturation (melting) curves of macromolecules are used to determine folding thermodynamic parameters. Notably, this insight into RNA and DNA stability underlies nearest neighbor theory and diverse structure prediction tools.
Jacob P. Sieg +3 more
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Thermodynamics of Nucleic Acid “Shape Readout” by an Aminosugar [PDF]
Biochemistry, 2011 Recognition of nucleic acids is important for our understanding of nucleic acid structure as well as for our understanding of nucleic acid-protein interactions. In addition to the direct readout mechanisms of nucleic acids such as H-bonding, shape recognition of nucleic acids is being increasingly recognized as playing an equally important role in DNA ...
Dev P Arya, Nihar Ranjan
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Novel isoguanine derivative of unlocked nucleic acid-Investigations of thermodynamics and biological potential of modified thrombin binding aptamer. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Thrombin binding aptamer (TBA), is a short DNA 15-mer that forms G-quadruplex structure and possesses anticoagulant properties. Some chemical modifications, including unlocked nucleic acids (UNA), 2'-deoxy-isoguanosine and 2'-deoxy-4-thiouridine were ...
Weronika Kotkowiak +2 more
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Thermodynamic analysis of Zα domain-nucleic acid interactions [PDF]
Biochemical Journal, 2022 Abstract DNA/RNA molecules adopting the left-handed conformation (Z-form) have been attributed with immunogenic properties. However, their biological role and importance has been a topic of debate for many years. The discovery of Z-DNA/RNA binding domains (Zα domains) in varied proteins that are involved in the innate
Bharath Srinivasan +2 more
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Thermodynamic Analysis of Nylon Nucleic Acids [PDF]
ChemBioChem, 2008 AbstractThe stability and structure of nylon nucleic acid duplexes with complementary DNA and RNA strands was examined. Thermal denaturing studies of a series of oligonucleotides that contained nylon nucleic acids (1–5 amide linkages) revealed that the amide linkage significantly enhanced the binding affinity of nylon nucleic acids towards both ...
Yu, Liu +6 more
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NTDB: Thermodynamic Database for Nucleic Acids [PDF]
Nucleic Acids Research, 2001 A new thermodynamic database for normal and modified nucleic acids has been developed. This Thermodynamic Database for Nucleic Acids (NTDB) includes sequence, structure and thermodynamic information as well as experimental methods and conditions. In this release, there are 1851 sequences containing both normal and modified nucleic acids.
Wing Lok Abe Kurtz Chiu +4 more
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Thermodynamic Analysis of Interacting Nucleic Acid Strands [PDF]
SIAM Review, 2007 Motivated by the analysis of natural and engineered DNA and RNA systems, we present the first algorithm for calculating the partition function of an unpseudoknotted complex of multiple interacting nucleic acid strands. This dynamic program is based on a rigorous extension of secondary structure models to the multistranded case, addressing ...
Robert M. Dirks +4 more
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Monovalent metal ion binding promotes the first transesterification reaction in the spliceosome
Nature Communications, 2023 Cleavage and formation of phosphodiester bonds in nucleic acids is accomplished by large cellular machineries composed of both protein and RNA. Long thought to rely on a two-metal-ion mechanism for catalysis, structure comparisons revealed many contain ...
Jana Aupič +4 more
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Thermodynamic framework to assess low abundance DNA mutation detection by hybridization. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The knowledge of genomic DNA variations in patient samples has a high and increasing value for human diagnostics in its broadest sense. Although many methods and sensors to detect or quantify these variations are available or under development, the ...
Hanny Willems +7 more
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