Toroidal DNA condensates: Unraveling the fine structure and the role of nucleation in determining size

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 34, Issue , 2005, Pages 295-318

  Hud, Nicholas V ^a   Vilfan, Igor D ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene delivery; Kinetics; Packaging; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

DNA; POLYELECTROLYTE; POLYMER;

DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOPHYSICS; CATIONS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA; DNA, CIRCULAR; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; POLYMERS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 14044271924     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.34.040204.144500     Document Type: Review

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