New insights into DNA triplexes: Residual twist and radial difference as measures of base triplet non-isomorphism and their implication to sequence-dependent non-uniform DNA triplex

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 43-55

  Thenmalarchelvi, R ^a   Yathindra, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GUANINE; THYMINE; TRIPLEX DNA;

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BASE PAIRING; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SIMULATION; STEREOCHEMISTRY; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; TRIPLE HELIX; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 13744251225     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki143     Document Type: Article

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