Exploring rare conformational species and ionic effects in DNA Holliday junctions using single-molecule spectroscopy

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 341, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 739-751

  Joo, Chirlmin ^a   McKinney, Sean A ^a   Lilley, David M J ^b   Ha, Taekjip ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

branch migration; FRET, fluorescence resonance energy transfer; Holliday junction; ionic effect; parallel conformation; single molecule spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

COBALT; DNA; ION; MAGNESIUM ION; SODIUM;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ELECTRICITY; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 4143055013     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.06.024     Document Type: Article

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