Cruciform structures and functions

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 279-307

  Timsit, Youri ^a   Moras, Dino ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUCIFORM DNA;

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DNA HELIX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 0030425434     PISSN: 00335835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0033583500005862     Document Type: Review

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