Torsional directed walks, entropic elasticity, and DNA twist stiffness

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 94, Issue 26, 1997, Pages 14418-14422

  Moroz, J David ^a   Nelson, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER; DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA CONFORMATION; ENTROPY; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; DNA; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 0031474159     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.26.14418     Document Type: Article

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