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SUBMITTER: Suzuki M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC306994 | biostudies-other | 1995 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nucleic acids research 19950601 12
Superstructure-formation of DNA plays an important role in transcription regulation as well as in chromatin formation. To understand the stereochemical basis of DNA bending by proteins we analysed the structural characteristics of dinucleotide steps which occur at the site where DNA is bent upon binding a transcription factor. When DNA is considerably bent in a crystal structure the bending is not spread smoothly over a length, but the DNA is kinked at a pair of crucial steps which are highly ro ...[more]