Mechanisms of DNA sequence selective alkylation of guanine-N7 positions by nitrogen mustards
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Mechanisms of DNA sequence selective alkylation of guanine-N7 positions by nitrogen mustards.
Quantitative determinations were carried out of the relative reaction rates of several nitrogen mustards at various guanine-N7 positions in DNA fragments of known sequence. The findings suggest structural hypotheses of the origins of the reaction selectivities. End-labeled DNA fragments were reacted with nitrogen mustards, and the guanine-N7 alkylation sites were analyzed by gel electrophoresis...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0305-1048,1362-4962
DOI: 10.1093/nar/15.24.10531