Analysis of the Mechanism of DNA Recombination Using Tangles

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 253-313

  Cozzarelli, Nicholas R ^c,c   De Witt, Sumners ^a,c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESOLVASE;

DNA RECOMBINATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; ORIENTATION; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNAPSE; TECHNIQUE;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSPOSASE;

EID: 0029090187     PISSN: 00335835     EISSN: 14698994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033583500003498     Document Type: Article

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