Tertiary Structure Motif of Oxytricha Telomere DNA

Biochemistry

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 1994, Pages 7517-7527

  Wang, Ke Yu ^a   Bolton, Philip H ^a   Swaminathan, S ^b  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GILEAD SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRIMIDINE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; THROMBIN;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CILIATE; DNA SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TELOMERE;

ANIMAL; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DRUG STABILITY; HEAT; LIGHT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OXYTRICHA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TELOMERE;

EID: 0028366098     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi00190a004     Document Type: Article

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