The homology recognition well as an innate property of DNA structure

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4683-4688

  Kornyshev, Alexei A ^a,b   Wynveen, Aaron ^a,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRICITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; BASE MISPAIRING; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

BASE PAIR MISMATCH; DNA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 63849253156     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811208106     Document Type: Article

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