The effect of intrinsic curvature on conformational properties of circular DNA

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1070-1079

  Katritch, Vsevolod ^a,c   Vologodskii, Alexander ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA HELIX; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; STATISTICS;

EID: 0031048190     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(97)78757-5     Document Type: Article

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