Electrospray mass spectrometry of noncovalent complexes between small molecule ligands and nucleic acids

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2010 • In Joseph H., Banoub; Patrick A., Limbach (Eds.) Mass spectrometry of nucleosides and nucleic acids

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[en] CONTENTS 8.1 Introduction 8.1.1 ESI-MS of Noncovalent Complexes 8.1.2 Nucleic Acid Targeting by Small Molecules 8.2 Electrospray Mass Spectrometry of Nucleic Acid Noncovalent Complexes 8.2.1 Stoichiometries: Number of Strands and Detection of Nucleic Acid Higher-Order Structures 8.2.2 Stoichiometries: Number of Bound Ligands 8.2.3 Role of Cations in Nucleic Acid Structure and Ligand Binding 8.2.4 Determination of Equilibrium Binding Constants 8.2.5 Are the Relative Intensities Proportional to the Abundances in Solution? 8.3 Characterizing Noncovalent Ligand Binding by MS/MS of the Complexes 8.3.1 Overview of Dissociation Pathways 8.3.2 How Observed Pathways Depend on Instrumental Parameters 8.3.3 How Observed Pathways Depend on Ligand Binding 8.3.4 Probing the Energetics of Ligand-DNA Interactions 8.3.5 Determining the Ligand Binding Mode 8.3.6 Determining the Ligand Binding Site by MS/MS 8.4 Conclusion and Outlook References

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Giga-Systems Biology and Chemical Biology - ULiège

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Biochemistry, biophysics & molecular biology
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Gabelica, Valérie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie (sciences) > GIGA-R : Laboratoire de spectrométrie de masse (L.S.M.)

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Electrospray mass spectrometry of noncovalent complexes between small molecule ligands and nucleic acids

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2010

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Mass spectrometry of nucleosides and nucleic acids

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Joseph H., Banoub

Patrick A., Limbach

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CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, United States

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978-1-4200-4402-7

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283-302

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F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]

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