Helical chirality: A link between local interactions and global topology in DNA

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Timsit, Youri ^a   Várnai, Péter ^b  

^a CNRS Aix Marseille University   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVALENT CATION; DNA; MAGNESIUM ION; DNA TOPOISOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHIRALITY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SUPERCOILING; DYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PREDICTION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CROSSING OVER; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 77949511946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009326     Document Type: Article

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