Experimental and computational analysis of DNA unwinding and polymerization kinetics

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 587, Issue , 2010, Pages 57-83

  Pandey, Manjula ^a   Levin, Mikhail K ^b   Patel, Smita S ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA polymerase; DNA synthesis; DNA unwinding; gfit; global regression analysis; Hexameric helicase; primer extension; replication; strand displacement; T7 bacteriophage

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; HELICASE;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; INSTRUMENTATION; KINETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; DNA HELICASES; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77952995507     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-355-8_5     Document Type: Article

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