No braiding of Holliday junctions in positively supercoiled DNA molecules

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 294, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 683-699

  Sun, Weiqiong ^a   Mao, Chengde ^a   Iwasaki, Hiroshi ^b   Kemper, Börries ^c   Seeman, Nadrian C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical and enzymatic probes of DNA structure; Crossover isomerization; DNA topology; Holliday junctions; Recombination

Indexed keywords

CONGOCIDINE; ENDONUCLEASE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM; RESOLVASE;

ARTICLE; CROSSING OVER; DNA BINDING; DNA HELIX; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; ISOMERISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033521233     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3155     Document Type: Article

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