DNA overwinds when stretched

Nature

Volumn 442, Issue 7104, 2006, Pages 836-839

  Gore, Jeff ^a,c   Bryant, Zev ^a,b,d   Nöllmann, Marcelo ^a   Le, Mai U ^a   Cozzarelli, Nicholas R ^a   Bustamante, Carlos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROTEINS; TORSIONAL STRESS;

DNA MOLECULES; DOUBLE HELIX; TWIST-STRETCH COUPLING;

DNA;

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANISOTROPY; DNA; PROTEIN; WIND VELOCITY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; DNA DENATURATION; DNA HELIX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGIDITY; STRETCHING; TENSION; TORQUE;

EID: 33747461393     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04974     Document Type: Article

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