Dimensions of a plectonemic DNA supercoil under fairly general perturbations

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 252, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 61-66

  Odijk, Theo ^a   Ubbink, Job ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DNA; Plectonemic helix; Semiclassical approximations; Supercoiling; Topology

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FREE ENERGY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

HAMILTONIAN; PLECTONEMIC DNA; SUPERCOILING;

DNA;

EID: 0032050083     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00588-8     Document Type: Article

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