The effect of ionic conditions on the conformations of supercoiled DNA. II. Equilibrium catenation

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 267, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 312-323

  Rybenkov, Valentin V ^a   Vologodskii, Alexander V ^b   Cozzarelli, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Catenanes; Chromosome unlinking; DNA modeling; DNA topology; Supercoiled DNA

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; DNA; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPERMIDINE;

ARTICLE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; IONIC STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031588905     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0877     Document Type: Article

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