Topological chirality and achirality of the closed circular DNAs

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 42, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 1705-1708

  Qiu, Wenyuan ^a,b   Xin, Houwen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DNA topology; Knot theory; Topological achirality; Topological chirality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0642304410     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02882671     Document Type: Article

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