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Footprinting provides a simple, quick, and reasonably inexpensive method for assessing the sequence specific interaction of ligands with DNA. Although the technique was developed in 1978 for studying the interaction of DNA-binding proteins with then target sites (1), it has proved invaluable for determining the sequence specificity of many small ligands
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Fox, K.R. (1997). DNase I Footprinting. In: Fox, K.R. (eds) Drug-DNA Interaction Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 90. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1385/0-89603-447-X:1
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