Electrophoretic mobility of supercoiled, catenated and knotted DNA molecules

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2015, Pages e24-

  Cebrián, Jorge ^a   Kadomatsu Hermosa, Maridian J ^b   Castán, Alicia ^a   Martínez, Víctor ^b   Parra, Cristina ^b   Fernández Nestosa, María José ^b   Schaerer, Christian ^b   Martínez Robles, María Luisa ^a   Hernández, Pablo ^a   Krimer, Dora B ^a   Stasiak, Andrzej ^c   Schvartzman, Jorge B ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ASUNCIÓN   (Paraguay)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATENATED DNA; DNA; DNA SUPERCOILING;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PROCEDURES; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

DNA; DNA, CATENATED; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 84945183206     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1255     Document Type: Article

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