DNA localization and stretching on periodically microstructured lipid membranes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Hochrein, Marion B ^a   Leierseder, Judith A ^a   Golubović, Leonardo ^b   Rädler, Joachim O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; LIPIDS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLECULES; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

CATIONIC-LIPID MEMBRANES; DNA STRETCHING; MICROSTRUCTURED SURFACES;

DNA;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; DNA; LIPID BILAYER;

ADSORPTION; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; LIPID BILAYER; PERIODICITY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ADSORPTION; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PERIODICITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 32644470974     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.038103     Document Type: Article

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