Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Native characterization of nucleic acid motif thermodynamics via non-covalent catalysis

  • Chunyan Wang,
  • Jin H. Bae,
  • David Yu Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10319
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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DNA hybridisation thermodynamics parameters underlie rational design of oligonucleotides for diagnostics and nanotechnology. Here, the authors present an accurate method to measure the free energy of a given DNA structure at specific temperature and buffer conditions.