RNA folding in the presence of counterions

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Mamasakhlisov, Yevgeni Sh ^a,b   Hayryan, Shura ^a   Morozov, V F ^b   Hu, Chin Kun ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^b YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

^c CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); HAMILTONIANS; IONS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYMER SOLUTIONS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

HETEROPOLYMERS; ION CONCENTRATION; PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES; RNA FOLDING;

RNA;

EID: 34547294972     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.061907     Document Type: Article

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