Theoretical study of large conformational transitions in DNA: The B↔A conformational change in water and ethanol/water

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3330-3338

  Noy, Agnes ^a   Pérez, Alberto ^a   Laughton, Charles A ^b   Orozco, Modesto ^a,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Barcelona Supercomputing Centre   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DNA; WATER; DNA A; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; HISTOGRAM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; DNA, A-FORM; ETHANOL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SOLVENTS; WATER;

EID: 34250860701     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl1135     Document Type: Article

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