Stretch-induced hairpin-coil transitions in designed polynucleotide chains

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 356-359

  Zhou, Haijun ^a,b   Zhang, Yang ^a   Ou Yang, Zhong Can ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTHALPY; MACROMOLECULES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYMERS; PROTEINS; RNA; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HAIRPIN COIL TRANSITION; POLYNUCLEOTIDE CHAINS; SINGLE MACROMOLECULAR MECHANICAL MEASUREMENT;

QUANTUM THEORY;

DNA; POLY(DC-DG); POLY(DEOXYADENYLATE DEOXYTHYMIDYLATE); POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE;

BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; KINETICS; MATHEMATICS;

BASE PAIRING; DNA; KINETICS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLY DA-DT; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES;

EID: 18044404832     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.356     Document Type: Article

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