The effect ionic conditions on the conformations of supercoiled DNA. I. Sedimentation analysis

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 267, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 299-311

  Rybenkov, Valentin V ^a   Vologodskii, Alexander V ^b   Cozzarelli, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA collapse; DNA supercoiling; DNA tertiary structure; Monte Carlo simulations; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA HELIX; DNA SUPERCOILING; ELASTICITY; ELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TORSION;

EID: 0030977220     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0876     Document Type: Article

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