Finding a basis for flipping bases

Structure

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 639-645

  Cheng, Xiaodong ^a   Blumenthal, Robert M ^b  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE (PYRIMIDINE DIMER); DNA; DNA MODIFICATION METHYLASE HHAI; GGCC SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; GGCC-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; SITE SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE SPECIFIC);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE (PYRIMIDINE DIMER); DNA; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC);

EID: 0030585418     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(96)00068-8     Document Type: Article

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