3D reconstruction and comparison of shapes of DNA minicircles observed by cryo-electron microscopy

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2006, Pages

  Amzallag, Arnaud ^a   Vaillant, Cédric ^a   Jacob, Mathews ^a   Unser, Michael ^a   Bednar, Jan ^b   Kahn, Jason D ^c   Dubochet, Jacques ^d   Stasiak, Andrzej ^d   Maddocks, John H ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; CIRCULAR DNA; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TATA BOX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFORMATION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; DNA, CIRCULAR; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SOFTWARE; TATA BOX;

EID: 33750967917     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl675     Document Type: Article

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