Strand breaks in X-irradiated crystalline DNA: Alternating CG oligomers

Radiation Research

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 334-339

  Razskazovskiy, Yuriy ^a,b   Debije, Michael G ^a   Howerton, Shelley B ^c   Williams, Loren D ^c   Bernhard, William A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BASE; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; OLIGOMER; PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONIZATION; IRRADIATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BINDING SITES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; IONS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; X-RAYS;

EID: 0041818333     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR3051     Document Type: Article

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