The stacked-X DNA Holliday junction and protein recognition

Journal of Molecular Recognition

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 234-242

  Khuu, Patricia A ^a   Voth, Andrea Regier ^a   Hays, Franklin A ^a,b   Ho, P Shing ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Holliday junction; Protein recongnition DNA; Recombination; Resolvases

Indexed keywords

CRUCIFORM DNA; DNA;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; DNA, CRUCIFORM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 33745028672     PISSN: 09523499     EISSN: 10991352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmr.765     Document Type: Review

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