Bending modes of DNA directly addressed by cryo-electron microscopy of DNA minicircles

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2882-2893

  Demurtas, Davide ^a   Amzallag, Arnaud ^b   Rawdon, Eric J ^c   Maddocks, John H ^d   Dubochet, Jacques ^a   Stasiak, Andrzej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CYCLIZATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CYCLIZATION; DNA, CIRCULAR; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 66249118371     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp137     Document Type: Article

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