Z-DNA: The long road to biological function

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 566-572

  Rich, Alexander ^a   Zhang, Shuguang ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA Z; PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

DNA CONFORMATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CONFORMATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; HISTORY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 0037803571     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1115     Document Type: Review

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