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Peptide Nucleic Acids

"Peptide Nucleic Acids" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

DNA analogs containing neutral amide backbone linkages composed of aminoethyl glycine units instead of the usual phosphodiester linkage of deoxyribose groups. Peptide nucleic acids have high biological stability and higher affinity for complementary DNA or RNA sequences than analogous DNA oligomers.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Peptide Nucleic Acids" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Peptide Nucleic Acids" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 25 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2020 and 2022
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.