Elastic property of single double-stranded DNA molecules: Theoretical study and comparison with experiments

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 62, Issue 1 B, 2000, Pages 1045-1058

  Zhou, Haijun ^a,b   Zhang, Yang ^a   Ou Yang, Zhong Can ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMERS; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; ELECTROSTATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

DOUBLE STRANDED BIOPOLYMERS; PATH INTEGRAL METHOD;

DNA;

DNA; DNA SUPERCOILING;

BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; METABOLISM; TORQUE;

BASE PAIRING; DNA; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; TORQUE;

EID: 0034214951     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.62.1045     Document Type: Article

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