Analysis of Altered DNA Structures: Cruciform DNA

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 94, Issue , 1999, Pages 29-40

  Courey, Albert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Copy Number Vector; Dyad Axis; Electrophoresis Chamber; Holliday Junction; Palindromic Sequence

Indexed keywords

CRUCIFORM DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PLASMID; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

DNA, CRUCIFORM; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS;

EID: 4444299767     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1385/1-59259-259-7:29     Document Type: Chapter

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