DNA conformations and their sequence preferences

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3690-3706

  Svozil, Daniel ^a   Kalina, Jan ^b   Omelka, Marek ^b   Schneider, Bohdan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA A; DNA B; DNA Z; NAKED DNA;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA HELIX; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOSINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; DNA; DNA, A-FORM; DNA, CRUCIFORM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; G-QUADRUPLEXES; LIGANDS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES; RNA;

EID: 46349098220     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn260     Document Type: Article

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