Analysis of Chemical and Enzymatic Cleavage Frequencies in Supercoiled DNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 336, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1087-1102

  Tsen, Hua ^a   Levene, Stephen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical and enzymatic probing; Cruciform structure; DNA footprinting; DNA supercoiling; Hydroxyl radical

Indexed keywords

CRUCIFORM DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SUPERCOILING; GEOMETRY; INVERTED REPEAT; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

EID: 1242294477     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.12.079     Document Type: Article

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