Quantitative nucleic acids footprinting: Thermodynamic and kinetic approaches

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 36-44

  Petri, Victoria ^a   Brenowitz, Michael ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOMYCIN A3; CONGOCIDINE; DACTINOMYCIN; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LEXITROPSIN; NUCLEASE; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA;

DNA CONFORMATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DRUG DNA BINDING; KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0031013756     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-1669(97)80155-3     Document Type: Article

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