Table of Contents

Covers the following areas of nucleic acid science:

nucleoside chemistry
synthetic nucelotides
nucleic acid structure
sequence analysis
oligonucleotide synthesis
nucleic acid conjugates
nucleic acid binding proteins
ribozymes
aptamers
ribonucleoproteins
DNA methylation
RNA interference
therapeutic use of nucleic acids

About the Author

Sabine Müller studied Chemistry at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany), completing her PhD in 1994. Thereafter, she spent one and a half years as a postdoc with Michael J. Gait at the MRC in Cambridge (UK) and then took up a group leader position at Humboldt University. In 2003, she finished her Habilitation and moved to the University of Bochum where she was a Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry until 2006. Since 2006 she has been working at Greifswald University, where she holds the chair of Bioorganic Chemistry.

Reviews

"The descriptions are conscious and informative. Researchers from industry and academia will benefit from this book." (ChemBioChem, December 2008)