Cobalt hexammine induced tautomeric shift in Z-DNA: The structure of d(CGCGCA).d(TGCGCG) in two crystal forms

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 5945-5953

  Thiyagarajan, S ^a   Rajan, S S ^a   Gautham, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AMINO ACID; COBALT; CYTOSINE; DNA Z; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GUANINE; IMINO ACID; METAL ION; THREONINE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DNA BINDING; DNA HELIX; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE DISRUPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

BASE PAIRING; COBALT; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, Z-FORM; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 10244226776     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh919     Document Type: Article

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