Issue 10, 2012
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Interstrand interactions on DNA duplexes modified by TTF units at the 3′ or 5′-ends†‡

Sónia Pérez-Rentero,a   Isaac Gállego,a   Álvaro Somoza,b   Rubén Ferreira,a   Jiří Janoušek,c   Martin Bělohradský,c   Irena G. Stará,c   Ivo Starýc  and  Ramon Eritja*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), IQAC-CSIC, CIBER-BBN, Baldiri Reixac 10, Barcelona, Spain
E-mail: recgma@cid.csic.es
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b IMDEA-Nanociencia, E-28049 Madrid, Spain

c Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB), v.v.i. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo nám. 2, 16610 Prague 6, Czech Republic

Abstract

Short DNA duplexes carrying TTF units at the same termini exhibit a high increase in melting temperature. When both TTF units were on opposite termini, salt-dependent aggregation is observed, yielding well defined spherical DNA supramolecular structures.

Graphical abstract: Interstrand interactions on DNA duplexes modified by TTF units at the 3′ or 5′-ends

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2RA20477K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
14 Mar 2012
Accepted
15 Mar 2012
First published
16 Mar 2012

RSC Adv., 2012,2, 4069-4071

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Interstrand interactions on DNA duplexes modified by TTF units at the 3′ or 5′-ends

S. Pérez-Rentero, I. Gállego, Á. Somoza, R. Ferreira, J. Janoušek, M. Bělohradský, I. G. Stará, I. Starý and R. Eritja, RSC Adv., 2012, 2, 4069 DOI: 10.1039/C2RA20477K

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