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What Is XNA?
Author(s) -
Chaput John C.,
Herdewijn Piet
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201905999
Subject(s) - nucleic acid , chemistry , dna , phrase , biochemistry , computational biology , computer science , biology , artificial intelligence
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?