Endogenous fluctuations of DNA topology in the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 7235-7242

  Salvador, Maria L ^a   Klein, Uwe ^b   Bogorad, Lawrence ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031784934     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.12.7235     Document Type: Article

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