Double-stranded DNA homology produces a physical signature

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

Volumn 107, Issue 28, 2010, Pages 12547-12552

  Wang, Xing ^a,c   Zhang, Xiaoping ^a   Mao, Chengde ^b   Seeman, Nadrian C ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Homology recognition; PX DNA; Supercoiling relaxation; Unusual DNA motifs

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA HELIX; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA, Z-FORM; ELECTROPHORESIS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PLASMIDS;

EID: 77955452799     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000105107     Document Type: Article

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