Weakly bound water molecules shorten single-stranded DNA

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 128, Issue 20, 2006, Pages 6636-6639

  Cui, Shuxun ^a,b   Albrecht, Christian ^a   Kühner, Ferdinand ^a   Gaub, Hermann E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; HYDROGEN BONDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OLIGOMERS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

GUANIDINE-HCL SOLUTION; MOLECULE FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; WATER MOLECULES;

DNA;

SINGLE STRANDED DNA; WATER;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DNA PACKAGING; ELASTICITY; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHASE SEPARATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPECTROSCOPY;

1-PROPANOL; BENZENE DERIVATIVES; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ELASTICITY; GUANIDINE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLVENTS; WATER;

EID: 33646718178     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja0582298     Document Type: Article

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