Supercoiled DNA is interwound in liquid crystalline solutions.

Transcription generates positively and negatively supercoiled domains in the template

1988 • 742 citations

Determination of the number of superhelical turns in simian virus 40 DNA by gel electrophoresis.

1975 • 538 citations

Use of site-specific recombination as a probe of DNA structure and metabolism in vivo

1987 • 297 citations

Multiple liquid crystal phases of DNA at high concentrations

1988 • 283 citations

On the sequence determinants and flexibility of the kinetoplast DNA fragment with abnormal gel electrophoretic mobilities

1985 • 240 citations

Direct Evidence for DNA Bending at the Lambda Replication Origin

1987 • 233 citations

The integration host factor of Escherichia coli binds to bent DNA at the origin of replication of the plasmid pSC101

1987 • 228 citations

Supercoiling in closed circular DNA: dependence upon ion type and concentration

1978 • 216 citations

An altered DNA conformation in origin region I is a determinant for the binding of SV40 large T antigen

1986 • 200 citations

The number of superhelical turns in native Virion SV40 DNA and Minicol DNA determined by the band counting method

1976 • 187 citations

The stereostructure of knots and catenanes produced by phage λ integrative recombination: implications for mechanism and DNA structure

1985 • 177 citations

Curved helix segments can uniquely orient the topology of supertwisted DNA

1988 • 150 citations

Cholesteric organization of DNA in vivo and in vitro.

1984 • 103 citations

The terminus of SV40 DNA replication and transcription contains a sharp sequence-directed curve

1988 • 94 citations

Structure de l'acide désoxyribonucléique en solution: Étude par diffusion des rayons X aux petits angles

1961 • 76 citations

Magnetic ordering of DNA liquid crystals

1986 • 74 citations

The P22 bacteriophage DNA molecule

1968 • 72 citations

Helical parameters of DNA do not change when DNA fibers are wetted: X-ray diffraction study.

1979 • 58 citations

The structure of cauliflower mosaic virus genome

1977 • 44 citations

X-ray scattering from the superhelix in circular DNA.

1983 • 37 citations

Electron microscopy can be used to measure DNA supertwisting

1984 • 30 citations

Environmental influences on DNA superhelicity

1987 • 30 citations

Sedimentation coefficient of polyoma virus DNA

1967 • 29 citations

Intrinsic Birefringence of Multiple-Coiled DNA, Theory and Applications

1965 • 24 citations

New Wrinkles on Polynucleotide Duplexes

1983 • 22 citations

X-ray diffraction studies of circular superhelical DNA at 300–10,000-Å resolution

1976 • 22 citations

Sedimentation analysis of conformation changes of circular PM2 DNA in relation to the ionic strength

1971 • 16 citations

Conformational variation in superhelical deoxyribonucleic acid

1978 • 16 citations

X-ray scattering from randomly oriented superhelices. Circular superhelical DNA

1980 • 16 citations

Evidence for an interwound form for the superhelix in circular DNA

1984 • 15 citations

Electron microscopic study of the tertiary structure of covalently closed polyoma virus DNA

1968 • 6 citations