Single-stranded loops as end-label polarity markers for double-stranded linear DNA templates in atomic force microscopy

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Billingsley, Daniel J ^a   Crampton, Neal ^a   Kirkham, Jennifer ^a   Thomson, Neil H ^a   Bonass, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION;

DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84864454904     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks276     Document Type: Article

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