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Efforts toward expansion of the genetic alphabet: Optimization of interbase hydrophobic interactions
Wu, Yiqin,Ogawa, Anthony K.,Berger, Markus,McMinn, Dustin L.,Schultz, Peter G.,Romesberg, Floyd E.
, p. 7621 - 7632 (2007/10/03)
Six novel unnatural nucleobases have been characterized that form stable base pairs in duplex DNA, relying not on hydrogen bonds, but rather on interbase hydrophobic interactions. These nucleobases are derivatives of the hydrophobic base pair between 7-az