Chemical Biology/ Organic Chemistry

Design, Synthesis and Evaluation of Biological-functional molecules, pyrrole-imidazole polyamides conjugates.

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Takagaki, T.; Bando, T.; Kitano, M.; Hashiya, K.; Kashiwazaki, G.; Sugiyama, H. Evalution of PI polyamide Conjugates With Eight-Base Pair Recognition and Improvement of The Aqueous Solubility by PEGylation. Bioorg. Med. Chem., 2011, 19, 5896-5902.