附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
DNA: alternative conformations and biology / Vladimir N. Potaman and Richard R. Sinden -- Sequence-dependent variability of B-DNA: an update on bending and curvature / Victor B. Zhurkin [and others] -- Curved DNA and prokaryotic promoters: a mechanism for activation of transcription / Munehiko Asayama and Takashi Ohyama -- Repression of transcription by curved DNA and nucleoid protein H-NS: a mode of bacterial gene regulation / Cynthia L. Pon, Stefano Stella and Claudio O. Gualerzi -- Curved DNA and transcription in eukaryotes / Takashi Ohyama -- Putative roles of kin17, a mammalian protein binding curved DNA, in transcription / Jaime F. Angulo [and others] -- Roles for Z-DNA and double-stranded RNA in transcription: encoding genetic information by shape rather than by sequence / Alan Herbert -- Do DNA triple helices or quadruplexes have a role in transcription? / Michael W. Van Dyke -- Nucleic acid structures and the transcription defects in fragile X syndrome and Friedreich's ataxia / Karen Usdin -- Possible roles of DNA supercoiling in transcription / Susumu Hirose and Kuniharu Matsumoto -- Gene regulation by HMGA and HMGB chromosomal proteins and related architectural DNA-binding proteins / Andrew A. Travers -- Molecular mechanisms of male sex determination: the enigma of SRY / Michael A. Weiss -- The role of unusual DNA structures in chromatin organization for transcription / Takashi Ohyama -- DNA bendability and nucleosome positioning in transcriptional regulation / Mensur Dlakić, David W. Ussery and Søren Brunak.