Real-time detection of cruciform extrusion by single-molecule DNA nanomanipulation

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4275-4283

  Ramreddy, T ^a   Sachidanandam, R ^b   Strick, T R ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUCIFORM EXTRUSION; CRUCIFORM REWINDING; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA HAIRPIN; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; INVERTED REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE MOLECULE DNA NANOMANIPULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; TORQUE;

CRUCIFORM DNA;

DNA, CRUCIFORM; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; KINETICS; TORQUE;

EID: 79961181681     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr008     Document Type: Article

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