Observation of spontaneous base pair breathing events in the molecular dynamics simulation of a difluorotoluene-containing DNA oligonucleotide [5]

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 121, Issue 37, 1999, Pages 8653-8654

  Cubero, Elena ^a   Sherer, Edward C ^b   Luque, F Javier ^a   Orozco, Modesto ^a   Laughton, Charles A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; TOLUENE DERIVATIVE;

BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDROGEN BOND; LETTER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SIMULATION; SOLVATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033595533     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja991067t     Document Type: Letter

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