Spiral structure of Escherichia coli HUalphabeta provides foundation for DNA supercoiling.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on March 05, 2007

Authors

Fusheng Guo1, Sankar Adhya

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1: Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-4264, USA.

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