Effects of sequence disorder on DNA looping and cyclization

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

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Popov, Yuri O ^a   Tkachenko, Alexei V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CYCLIZATION PROBABILITIES; DNA LOOPING; RANDOM SEQUENCES; SEQUENCE DISORDER;

DNA;

EID: 34547659294     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.021901     Document Type: Article

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