Slow nucleic acid unzipping kinetics from sequence-defined barriers

European Physical Journal E

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 153-161

  Cocco, S ^a   Marko, J F ^b   Monasson, R ^c,d  

^a Lab Dynamique des Fluides Complexes   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE STATISTIQUE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CONFORMATIONS; DNA SEQUENCES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; RNA;

BIOMOLECULES; HELIX-LOOP STRUCTURE; UNZIPPING KINETICS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

DNA; NUCLEOSIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; DNA DENATURATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVALUATION; KINETICS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STIMULATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; ENERGY TRANSFER; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOTION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; NUCLEOSIDES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 2342470819     PISSN: 12928941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epje/e2003-00019-8     Document Type: Article

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