Stretching of homopolymeric RNA reveals single-stranded helices and base-stacking

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Seol, Yeonee ^a,c   Skinner, Gary M ^a   Visscher, Koen ^a   Buhot, Arnaud ^b   Halperin, Avraham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMOPOLYMERIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

BASE-STACKING; HELIX-COIL TRANSITION;

RNA;

EID: 34147193842     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.158103     Document Type: Article

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