The many twists and turns of DNA: template, telomere, tool, and target

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 262-275

  Egli, Martin ^a   Pallan, Pradeep S ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL ION; NANOMATERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE;

BASE PAIRING; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA ADDUCT; DNA BINDING; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; ENHANCER REGION; LIGAND BINDING; NANOANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA ADDUCTS; G-QUADRUPLEXES; HUMANS; METALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; TELOMERE;

EID: 77955570043     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2010.03.001     Document Type: Review

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