DNA structure and function

FEBS Journal

Volumn 282, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2279-2295

  Travers, Andrew ^a,b   Muskhelishvili, Georgi ^c  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

A DNA; alternative DNA structures; B DNA; DNA as an energy store; DNA backbone conformation; DNA elasticity; DNA information; DNA structure; DNA topology; genome organisation

Indexed keywords

DNA B; DNA TRANSLOCASE; ENZYME; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA; DNA SUPERCOILING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHIRALITY; DNA FUNCTION; DNA HELIX; DNA PACKAGING; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENERGY; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC CODE; HERITABILITY; MECHANICAL TORSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE, METABOLISM AND FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONFORMATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENETICS; GENOME; HEREDITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENETIC PHENOMENA; GENETICS; GENOME; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 84935924473     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/febs.13307     Document Type: Review

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