Buckling transitions in superhelical DNA: Dependence on the elastic constants and DNA size

Biopolymers

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 5-25

  Ramachandran, Gomathi ^a   Schlick, Tamar ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATIONS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DNA CONFIGURATION; DNA SUPERHELICAL DENSITY; SUPERHELICAL DNA BUCKLING TRANSITIONS; SUPERHELICAL DNA ELASTIC CONSTANT;

DNA;

DNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 0031021521     PISSN: 00063525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0282(199701)41:1<5::AID-BIP2>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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