Base pair opening within B-DNA: Free energy pathways for GC and AT pairs from umbrella sampling simulations

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1434-1443

  Giudice, Emmanuel ^a   Várnai, Péter ^a   Lavery, Richard ^a  

^a INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CURVED DNA; CYTOSINE; DNA B; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GUANINE; OLIGOMER; PURINE NUCLEOTIDE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOSIDE; SOLVENT; THYMINE;

BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL BINDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA HELIX; DNA STRUCTURE; ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; HYDROGEN BONDING; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 0037335588     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg239     Document Type: Review

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