Nucleic acid fragmentation on the millisecond timescale using a conventional X-ray rotating anode source: Application to protein-DNA footprinting

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2020, Pages

  Henn, Arnon ^a   Halfon, Jacob ^a   Kela, Itai ^a   Orion, Itzhak ^a   Sagi, Irit ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID FRAGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TIME; X RAY;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TIME FACTORS; X-RAYS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 0035894981     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.24.e122     Document Type: Article

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