Curved DNA molecules migrate anomalously slowly in free solution

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 4425-4432

  Stellwagen, Earle ^a   Lu, Yongjun ^a   Stellwagen, Nancy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CURVED DNA; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; PROTEIN VP1; THYMOSIN; VIRUS DNA; CAPSID PROTEIN; DNA; VP1 PROTEIN, POLYOMAVIRUS;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CALCULATION; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; MINICHROMOSOME; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; AT RICH SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

AT RICH SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CAPSID PROTEINS; DNA; DNA, VIRAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 23344434829     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki748     Document Type: Article

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