Effect of supercoiling on the juxtaposition and relative orientation of DNA sites

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2548-2556

  Vologodskii, Alexander ^a   Cozzarelli, Nicholas R ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA HELIX; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA SUPERCOILING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SIMULATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030058275     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79826-0     Document Type: Article

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