Coding and non-coding DNA thermal stability differences in eukaryotes studied by melting simulation, base shuffling and DNA nearest neighbor frequency analysis

Biophysical Chemistry

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 25-38

  Long, Dang D ^a   Grosse, Ivo ^b   Marx, Kenneth A ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^b Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA melting simulation; Exon intron; Melting temperature; Nearest neighbor frequencies; Sequence shuffling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; MELTING POINT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOSTABILITY;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 3042692366     PISSN: 03014622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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