Structural diversity of supercoiled DNA

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Irobalieva, Rossitza N ^a   Fogg, Jonathan M ^a   Catanese, Daniel J ^a   Sutthibutpong, Thana ^b   Chen, Muyuan ^a   Barker, Anna K ^a   Ludtke, Steven J ^a   Harris, Sarah A ^b   Schmid, Michael F ^a   Chiu, Wah ^a   Zechiedrich, Lynn ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOM; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; ELECTRON; HUMAN; ISOMER; MECHANICAL TORSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

DNA SUPERCOILING;

DNA, SUPERHELICAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION;

EID: 84943799105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9440     Document Type: Article

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