Salt effects on nucleic acids

KA Sharp, B Honig - Current opinion in structural biology, 1995 - Elsevier
… have long been used to describe the effects of salt on nucleic acids. Much of this work was
nucleic acids, and about the dielectric behavior, ion structure, and ion distribution of the …

Salt-nucleic acid interactions

CF Anderson, MT Record Jr - Annual Review of Physical …, 1995 - annualreviews.org
salt ions with polymeric and oligomeric nucleic acids in solution have large and distinctive
effects … hence on equilibrium processes involving nucleic acids, such as their conformational …

Kinetics of protein-nucleic acid interactions: use of salt effects to probe mechanisms of interactio

TM Lohman, PH Von Hippel - Critical Reviews in Biochemistry, 1986 - Taylor & Francis
effects of salt on the kinetics of proteinnucleic acid binding - Both the qualitative and quantitative
effects of salt … -nucleic acid kinetics - The focus of this section is on studies in which the …

Effect of salts on the interaction of nucleic acid particles

BE Conway, JAV Butler - Journal of Polymer Science, 1954 - Wiley Online Library
salts has little effect on the specific viscosity, and it is a reasonable inference that at zero
concentration of nucleic acid the effect of salts … a specimen of thymonucleic acid, prepared by an …

[PDF][PDF] Nucleic acid helix stability: effects of salt concentration, cation valence and size, and chain length

ZJ Tan, SJ Chen - Biophysical journal, 2006 - cell.com
… of nucleic acids. For ions (especially multivalent ions) in the close vicinity of nucleic acid
surface, … Poisson-Boltzmann theory ignores these effects whereas the recently developed tightly …

Application of a pairwise generalized Born model to proteins and nucleic acids: inclusion of salt effects

J Srinivasan, MW Trevathan, P Beroza… - Theoretical Chemistry …, 1999 - Springer
… We propose and parameterize a simple extension of the GB model to include salt effects in
… For these systems, as well as for selected conformations of protein A and the nucleic acids

Ionic effects on the stability and conformation of peptide nucleic acid complexes

S Tomac, M Sarkar, T Ratilainen… - Journal of the …, 1996 - ACS Publications
Effect of Monovalent Salt on the Stability of the Duplexes. To … effect of ions on PNA−DNA
duplex and salt effects in general … effect of a M + X - salt such as NaCl over a wide range of salt

Salt contribution to the flexibility of single‐stranded nucleic acid of finite length

FH Wang, YY Wu, ZJ Tan - Biopolymers: Original Research on …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Nucleic acids are negatively charged macromolecules and their structure properties are …
In this article, the salt effects on the flexibility of single-stranded (ss) nucleic acid chain ranging …

[PDF][PDF] Conformational transitions of duplex and triplex nucleic acid helices: thermodynamic analysis of effects of salt concentration on stability using preferential …

JP Bond, CF Anderson, MT Record - Biophysical journal, 1994 - cell.com
nucleic acid helices, the midpoint temperatures Tm depend strongly on a-, the mean ionic
acbvity of uniunivalent salt… ) accompanying the transition in excess salt permit evaluation of AL, …

A Highly Salt-Dependent Enthalpy Change for Escherichia coli SSB Protein−Nucleic Acid Binding Due to Ion−Protein Interactions

TM Lohman, LB Overman, ME Ferrari, AG Kozlov - Biochemistry, 1996 - ACS Publications
… However, the basis for these effects may not be related to the salt effects we observe for
SSB−nucleic acid interactions, but rather to the sequence heterogeneity of calf thymus DNA and …