The relative flexibility of B-DNA and A-RNA duplexes: Database analysis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 6144-6151

  Pérez, Alberto ^a   Noy, Agnes ^a   Lankas, Filip ^b   Luque, F Javier ^c   Orozco, Modesto ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA B; NAKED DNA; RNA;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RIGIDITY; RNA CONFORMATION;

EID: 11444267252     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh954     Document Type: Article

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