Conformational and thermodynamic properties of supercoiled DNA

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 227, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 1224-1243

  Vologodskii, Alexander V ^a   Levene, Stephen D ^b   Klenin, Konstantin V ^c   Frank Kamenetskii, Maxim ^a   Cozzarelli, Nicholas R ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA supercoiling; loop formation in DNA; tertiary structure of DNA: Monte Carlo simulation; thermodynamics of supercoiling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA HELIX; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENTROPY; GEOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0026489194     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(92)90533-P     Document Type: Article

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