Statistical mechanics of supercoils and the torsional stiffness of the DNA double helix

Nature

Volumn 280, Issue 5720, 1979, Pages 294-298

  Vologodskii, A V ^a   Anshelevich, V V ^a   Lukashin, A V ^a   Frank Kamenetskii, M D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

THEORETICAL STUDY;

DNA, SUPERHELICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 0018579392     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/280294a0     Document Type: Article

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