Internal motion of supercoiled DNA: Brownian dynamics simulations of site juxtaposition

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 284, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 287-296

  Jian, Hongmei ^a   Schlick, Tamar ^b   Vologodskii, Alexander ^c  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian dynamics; DNA dynamics; DNA supercoiling; DNA topology; Kinetics of site juxtaposition

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACCURACY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DNA SUPERCOILING; DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS; TORSION;

EID: 0032573605     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2170     Document Type: Article

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