Monte Carlo Simulations of Locally Melted Supercoiled DNAs in 20 mM Ionic Strength

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 3079-3096

  Sucato, Christopher A ^a   Rangel, David P ^a   Aspleaf, Dan ^a   Fujimoto, Bryant S ^a   Schurr, J Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA CROSS LINKING; ENERGY; IONIC STRENGTH; MOLECULAR MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TORSION;

EID: 2142763934     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(04)74357-X     Document Type: Article

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