Atomic force microscopy study of the effects of Mg2+ and other divalent cations on the end-to-end DNA interactions

Biochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 38, 2002, Pages 11372-11378

  Dahlgren, Paul R ^a   Lyubchenko, Yuri L ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVALENT CATIONS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MICA; PHOSPHATES; POSITIVE IONS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

DNA;

DIVALENT CATION; DNA FRAGMENT; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; MAGNESIUM ION; MONOVALENT CATION; SODIUM ION;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL PROCEDURES; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SAMPLE; VISUAL AID;

CATIONS, DIVALENT; DNA; DNA, CIRCULAR; MAGNESIUM; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SODIUM;

MICA;

EID: 0037167583     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi026102e     Document Type: Article

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