Entropy-driven genome organization

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3712-3721

  Marenduzzo, Davide ^a   Micheletti, Cristian ^b   Cook, Peter R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BASE PAIRING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; DNA REPLICATION; ENTROPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; FORCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULE; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33646195227     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.105.077685     Document Type: Article

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