Fractal dimension and localization of DNA knots

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Ercolini, Erika ^a   Valle, Francesco ^a,d   Adamcik, Jozef ^a   Witz, Guillaume ^a   Metzler, Ralf ^b,e   De Los Rios, Paolo ^a   Roca, Joaquim ^c   Dietler, Giovanni ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b NORDITA   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FRACTALS; MICA; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

DNA KNOTS; KINETIC TRAPPING; RADIUS OF GYRATION; SCALING PROPERTIES;

DNA SEQUENCES;

EID: 33846620178     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.058102     Document Type: Article

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