Intramolecular folding in human ILPR fragment with three C-rich repeats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Dhakal, Soma ^a   Lafontaine, Javonne L ^a   Yu, Zhongbo ^a   Koirala, Deepak ^a   Mao, Hanbin ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA FRAGMENT;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA DENATURATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; INSULIN LINKED POLYMORPHIC REGION; INTRAMOLECULAR FOLDING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MUTATION; PH; TANDEM REPEAT;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYTOSINE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HUMANS; INSULIN; MUTATION; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 84862643626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039271     Document Type: Article

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