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Sherri Rinker1, Yan Liu, Hao Yan
1Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. hao.yan@asu.edu.
Abstract:
We measured the helical repeats of a non-natural nucleic acid, locked nucleic acid (LNA), by incorporating LNA strands into the outer arms of a DNA double crossover (DX) molecule; atomic force microscopy (AFM) imaging of the two-dimensional (2D) arrays self-assembled from these DX molecules allows us to derive the helical repeat of the LNA/DNA hetero-duplex to be 13.2 +/- 0.9 base pairs per turn.
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