Talk:Z-DNA

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An image of Z-DNA would be nice here, perhaps even a picture comparing all three.

• Done. I created these images with a fine piece of software in Linux. Feel free to make comments. Thorwald 05:55, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Citation needed.

Will some expert kindly provide a source for the sentence quoted below, so that I can reach my goal of paring down the Citation Needed references on the following page? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Articles_with_unsourced_statements&from=Z

While no definitive biological significance of Z-DNA has been found, it is commonly believed to provide torsional strain relief while DNA transcription occurs.[citation needed]

Sincerely, GeorgeLouis 06:30, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

• A PubMed search for almost any paper published by Alexander Rich or P. Shing Ho should provide you with all the references you need. Dr. Rich "discovered" Z-DNA (in 1979) and is arguably the leading expert on it. He continues to publish to this day. Dr. Ho was Rich's postdoc and is now a professor (and chair) of biochemistry and biophysics. He also actively publishes on DNA to this day.--Thorwald 18:07, 29 October 2006 (UTC)