Unusual DNA Structures

Chapter 1 Unusual DNA Structures and the Probes Used for their Detection

Chapter 2 The Specificity of “Single Strand Specific Endonucleases”: Probes of phosphodiester conformation in double stranded nucleic acids. Left-Handed Polypurine/polypyrimidine structures. Long range transmission of conformational information in DNA.

Chapter 3 Chromatin Structure and DNA Structure at the hsp 26 Locus of Drosophila

Chapter 4 Cruciform Extrusion in Supercoiled DNA — Mechanisms and Contextual Influence

Chapter 5 Torsional Stress, Unusual DNA Structures, and Eukaryotic Gene Expression

Chapter 6 Development of a Model for DNA Supercoiling

Chapter 7 Cruciform Transitions Assayed Using a Psoralen Crosslinking Method: Applications to measurements of DNA torsional tension

Chapter 8 NMR-Distance Geometry Studies of Helical Errors and Sequence Dependent Conformations of DNA in Solution

Chapter 9 Hyperreactivity of the B-Z Junctions Probed by Two Aromatic Chemical Carcinogens, 2-N,N-Acetoxyacetylaminofluorene and 3-N,N-Acetoxyacetyl-Amino-4,6-Dimethyldipyrido[1,2-a:3′,2′-d] Imidazole

Chapter 10 Inherently Curved DNA and its Structural Elements

Chapter 11 DNA Flexibility Under Control: The Jumna Algorithm and its Application to BZ Junctions

Chapter 12 Base Sequence Effects in Curved and Rodlike DNA

Chapter 13 Sequence-Dependent Curvature of DNA

Chapter 14 Biophysical Principles of Specificity and Stability of Protein-DNA Interactions: Application to RNA Polymerase (Eσ 70 )-Promoter Interactions

Chapter 15 Immunochemical Approaches to the Definition of Unusual Nucleic Acid Structures

Chapter 16 Molecular Mechanical Studies on the B → Z Energetics of DNA Sequences

Chapter 17 Usual and Unusual DNA Structures: A Summing-Up