Visualizing nucleic acids and their complexes using electron microscopy

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 362-366

  Griffith, Jack D ^a   Lee, Suman ^a   Wang, Yuh Hwa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING;

EID: 0031011592     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(97)80052-8     Document Type: Article

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