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- Title
3D reconstruction and comparison of shapes of DNA minicircles observed by cryo-electron microscopy.
- Authors
Amzallag, Arnaud; Vaillant, Cédric; Jacob, Mathews; Unser, Michael; Bednar, Jan; Kahn, Jason D; Dubochet, Jacques; Stasiak, Andrzej; Maddocks, John H
- Abstract
We use cryo-electron microscopy to compare 3D shapes of 158 bp long DNA minicircles that differ only in the sequence within an 18 bp block containing either a TATA box or a catabolite activator protein binding site. We present a sorting algorithm that correlates the reconstructed shapes and groups them into distinct categories. We conclude that the presence of the TATA box sequence, which is believed to be easily bent, does not significantly affect the observed shapes.
- Publication
Nucleic acids research, 2006, Vol 34, Issue 18, pe125
- ISSN
1362-4962
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/nar/gkl675