Model for folding and aggregation in RNA secondary structures

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Guttal, Vishwesha ^a   Bundschuh, Ralf ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLYMERS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

SCALING EXPONENT; SECOND ORDER PHASE TRANSITION; SECONDARY STRUCTURES;

RNA;

RNA;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION;

MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA;

EID: 32644466838     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.018105     Document Type: Article

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