DNA Basepair Step Deformability Inferred from Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2872-2883

  Lankaš, Filip ^a,b,e   Šponer, Jiří ^b,c   Langowski, Jörg ^a   Cheatham III, Thomas E ^d  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b J HEYROVSKÝ INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PURINE; PYRIMIDINE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CALCULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA PACKAGING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ELASTICITY; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RIGIDITY;

EID: 0242290881     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74710-9     Document Type: Article

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