DNA Topology: Dynamic DNA Looping

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2006, Pages

  Travers, Andrew ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LACTOSE OPERON; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY;

BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LAC OPERON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 33749257496     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.08.070     Document Type: Short Survey

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