Crystal structure of the self-complementary 5'-purine start decamer d(GCGCGCGCGC) in the Z-DNA conformation. I

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1215-1221

  Ban, Changill ^a   Ramakrishnan, Boopathy ^a   Sundaralingam, Muttaiya ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PURINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029758132     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79350-5     Document Type: Article

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