Time-resolved fluorescence of 2-aminopurine as a probe of base flipping in M.HhaI - DNA complexes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 6953-6960

  Neely, Robert K ^a   Daujotyte, Dalia ^b   Grazulis, Saulius ^b   Magennis, Steven W ^a   Dryden, David T F ^a   Klimašauskas, Saulius ^b   Jones, Anita C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOPURINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

2-AMINOPURINE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; FLUORESCENT DYES; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR PROBES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE (CYTOSINE-SPECIFIC); SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 31144473532     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki995     Document Type: Article

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