Bending of short DNA helices

Artificial DNA: PNA and XNA

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Vologodskii, Alexander ^a   Du, Quan ^b   Frank Kamenetskii, Maxim ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA bending flexibility; DNA extreme bendability; DNA minicircles; DNA sticky ends; Single molecule data

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; CIRCULAR DNA;

BASE MISPAIRING; CYCLIZATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA HELIX; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE DISRUPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NOTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA BENDING FLEXIBILITY; DNA EXTREME BENDABILITY; DNA MINICIRCLES; DNA STICKY ENDS; METHODOLOGY; SINGLE-MOLECULE DATA;

DNA BENDING FLEXIBILITY; DNA EXTREME BENDABILITY; DNA MINICIRCLES; DNA STICKY ENDS; SINGLE-MOLECULE DATA;

DNA, CIRCULAR; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 84874906917     PISSN: 1949095X     EISSN: 19490968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/adna.23892     Document Type: Note

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