The chiral code: From DNA primary structures to quaternary assemblies

Chirality

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 405-414

  Minsky, Abraham ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chiral discrimination; Cholesteric mesophase; Homochirality; Self assembly; Stereospecificity; Supercoiling

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PROTEIN; RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; STEREOSPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031828822     PISSN: 08990042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-636X(1998)10:5<405::AID-CHIR6>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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