title: [Influence of formaldehyde on the melting temperature of DNA].
abstract: It has been shown that formaldehyde has no marked physical effect upon DNA resulting in lowering of its melting temperature. The effect of lowering of DNA melting temperature observed earlier by other authors resulted from the process of unwinding of DNA due to chemical reactions of formaldehyde with reactive base groups.
mesh_terms: D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D004247:DNA; D005557:Formaldehyde; D007700:Kinetics; D009691:Nucleic Acid Denaturation; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D005557:Formaldehyde; D004247:DNA
vernacular_title: Vliianie formal'degida na temperaturu plavleniia DNK.