DNA supercoiling enables the Type IIS restriction enzyme BspMI to recognise the relative orientation of two DNA sequences

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 5221-5228

  Kingston, Isabel J ^a   Gormley, Niall A ^a,b   Halford, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Solexa Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; PLASMID DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0344875225     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg743     Document Type: Article

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