Sticky DNA: Self-association properties of long GAA · TTC repeats in R · R · Y triplex structures from Friedreich's ataxia

Molecular Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 465-475

  Sakamoto, Naoaki ^a   Chastain, Paul D ^b   Parniewski, Pawel ^a,d   Ohshima, Keiichi ^c   Pandolfo, Massimo ^c   Griffith, Jack D ^b   Wells, Robert D ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FRATAXIN; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE;

ARTICLE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PLASMID;

ATAXIA;

EID: 0033120042     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80474-8     Document Type: Article

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