Strand breaks produced in X-irradiated crystalline DNA: Influence of base sequence

Radiation Research

Volumn 159, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 663-669

  Razskazovskiy, Yuriy ^a,b   Debije, Michael G ^a   Bernhard, William A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Dept Biochemistry/Biophysics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BASE; DNA FRAGMENT; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; PHOSPHATE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONIZATION; IONIZING RADIATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; X-RAYS;

EID: 0037625905     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/0033-7587(2003)159[0663:SBPIXC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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