Single-strand stacking free energy from DNA beacon kinetics

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 3212-3217

  Aalberts, Daniel P ^a   Parman, John M ^a   Goddard, Noel L ^b  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; POLYMER; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; KINETICS; MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; TEMPERATURE; THEORY;

EID: 0038637695     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)70045-9     Document Type: Article

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