Crystal structure of the self-complementary 5'-purine start decamer d(GCACGCGTGC) in the A-DNA conformation. II

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1222-1227

  Ban, Changill ^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; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029758960     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79351-7     Document Type: Article

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