What Is XNA?
- 18 June 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Angewandte Chemie-International Edition
- Vol. 58 (34), 11570-11572
- https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201905999
Abstract
The term “xeno‐nucleic acids”, abbreviated XNA, has grown in popularity to the point that it has become a catch‐all phrase for almost any unnatural nucleic acid, raising the question: what is XNA and how does it differ from chemically modified DNA?Keywords
Funding Information
- National Science Foundation (1607111)
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