DNA bending at adenine · thymine tracts
- 10 April 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 320 (6062) , 501-506
- https://doi.org/10.1038/320501a0
Abstract
Intrinsic bending of DNA molecules results from local structural polymorphism in regions of homopolymeric dA · dT which are at least 4 base pairs long; the A · T tracts must be repeated in phase with the helix screw. Bending, in the direction of base-pair tilt rather than roll, occurs at the junctions between the A · T tract and adjacent B-DNA, with a larger angle at the 3′ than at the 5′ end of the A tract.This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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