Stacking heterogeneity: A model for the sequence dependent melting cooperativity of duplex DNA

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 126, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Grigoryan, A V ^a   Mamasakhlisov, E Sh ^b   Buryakina, T Yu ^b   Tsarukyan, A V ^b   Benight, A S ^c   Morozov, V F ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^b YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN BOND INTERACTIONS; STACKING INTERACTIONS;

CHAIN LENGTH; HYDROGEN BONDS; MELTING; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; POLYPEPTIDES;

DNA SEQUENCES;

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA DENATURATION; DNA SEQUENCE; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

DNA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 34247642885     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2727456     Document Type: Article

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