Torsionally tuned cruciform and Z-DNA probes for measuring unrestrained supercoiling at specific sites in DNA of living cells

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 107-122

  Zheng, Guoxing ^a   Kochel, Tadeusz ^a   Hoepfner, Robert W ^a   Timmons, Stephen E ^a   Sinden, Richard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

cruciforms; DNA supercoiling; in vivo supercoiling; Z DNA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

CELL DNA; CRUCIFORM DNA; DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; DNA Z; PSORALEN;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIUM; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CLONE; DENSITY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VIVO CULTURE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORSION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; FICUSIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0025870925     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(91)80208-C     Document Type: Article

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