Water percolation governs polymorphic transitions and conductivity of DNA

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Brovchenko, Ivan ^a   Krukau, Aliaksei ^a   Oleinikova, Alla ^a   Mazur, Alexey K ^b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); PHASE TRANSITIONS;

DOUBLE HELIX; PERCOLATION TRANSITION; POLYMORPHIC TRANSITIONS; SIGMOIDLIKE ACCELERATION;

DNA;

DNA; ION; SODIUM; WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ION TRANSPORT; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY;

BIOPHYSICS; DNA; ION TRANSPORT; IONS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROBABILITY; SODIUM; WATER;

EID: 33749337783     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.137801     Document Type: Article

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