Sequence and temperature effect on hydrogen bond disruption in DNA determined by a statistical analysis

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-18

  Chen, Y Z ^a   Prohofsky, E W ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

base pair opening; chemical bond disruption; critical transition; DNA melting; multiphasic transition; premelting disruption

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL BOND; HYDROGEN BOND; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

EID: 0029905002     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002490050010     Document Type: Article

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