A novel bend of DNA CIT: Changeable bending-center sites of an intrinsic curvature under temperature conditions

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 139-145

  Agrawal, Ganesh Kr ^a   Asayama, Munehiko ^a   Shirai, Makoto ^a  

^a IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cyanobacterium; distamycin; Microcystis aeruginosa; psbA gene; static bend; transcription

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; DISTAMYCINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHOTOSYSTEM II PROTEIN COMPLEX; PLASMIDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TEMPERATURE;

MICROCYSTIS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0031047952     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(96)00517-4     Document Type: Article

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