Session: Nucleic Acids as Drug Targets


CARB		Monday, August 20, 2007

1:40 PM-4:50 PM BCEC -- 208, Oral
Nucleic Acids as Drug Targets
Novel Targets and Therapeutic Approaches
Official:	Dev P. Arya
1:40 PM	27	Development of cell-permeable peptide nucleic acid (PNA) Danith H. Ly
2:10 PM	28	Sequence recognition in the minor groove of DNA by covalently linked H-pin polyamides: The effect of H-pin linkage, linker length, and N-terminus modification on selectivity and affinity Caroline O'Hare, Peter Uthe, Hilary Mackay, Kevin Blackmon, Justin Jones, Toni Brown, Laura Westrate, Alan Sielaff, James Lajiness, Binh Nguyen, David Wilson, Jerome Kluza, John Hartley, Moses Lee
2:40 PM	29	Drug targeting of secondary DNA structures in oncogene promoter elements Laurence H. Hurley
3:10 PM		Intermission
3:20 PM	30	Designed spirocycles as probes for DNA and RNA microenvironments Graham Jones
3:50 PM	31	Platinum–DNA interactions: Structures and consequences Stephen J. Lippard
4:20 PM	32	Targeting hepatitis C virus RNA Thomas Hermann

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