Single molecule fluorescence analysis of branch migration of Holliday junctions: Effect of DNA sequence

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1239-1247

  Karymov, Mikhail A ^a   Bogdanov, Alexey ^a,b   Lyubchenko, Yuri L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUCIFORM DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, CRUCIFORM; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 51049115998     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.127522     Document Type: Article

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