The molecular theory of polyelectrolyte solutions with applications to the electrostatic properties of polynucleotides

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1978, Pages 179-246

  Manning, Gerald S ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYNUCLEOTIDE;

NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW;

BINDING SITES; CATIONS, DIVALENT; ELECTROLYTES; METALS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYNUCLEOTIDES; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 0017895903     PISSN: 00335835     EISSN: 14698994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033583500002031     Document Type: Article

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