THE INFLUENCE OF NONCOMPLEMENTARY BASES ON THE STABILITY OF ORDERED POLYNUCLEOTIDES
- 1 December 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 52 (6) , 1476-1481
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.52.6.1476
Abstract
Model experiments with synthetic polynucleotides have shown the helix-coil transition of an (Ap)nX-poly U or a poly AX-poly U complex to be different for X = C, G, and U. This finding was interpreted as due to differences in stacking energy for different dinucleotides.Keywords
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