Knot what we thought before: The twisted story of replication

BioEssays

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 805-808

  Postow, Lisa ^a   Peter, Brian J ^a   Cozzarelli, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

DNA REPLICATION; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 0033214032     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199910)21:10<805::AID-BIES1>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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