Rotational dynamics of curved DNA fragments studied by fluorescence polarization anisotropy

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 597-606

  Chirico, Giuseppe ^b   Collini, Maddalena ^b   Tóth, Katalin ^a   Brun, Nathalie ^a   Langowski, Jörg ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia Milan   (Italy)

Author keywords

Curvature prediction; DNA bending; DNA torsional rigidity; Phase fluorimetry

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; HYDRODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035111541     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002490000110     Document Type: Article

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