Localized single-stranded bubble mechanism for cyclization of short double helix DNA

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Yan, Jie ^a   Marko, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DNA; GENE TRANSFER; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; PROTEINS; VECTORS;

BUBBLE MECHANISM; DOUBLE HELIX DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; SPHERICAL HARMONICS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 19544379865     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.108108     Document Type: Article

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