Large-scale on-off switching of genetic activity mediated by the folding-unfolding transition in a giant DNA molecule: An hypothesis

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

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Takenaka, Yoshiko ^a   Nagahara, Hiroki ^a   Kitahata, Hiroyuki ^a   Yoshikawa, Kenichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SWITCHING;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; GENETIC ACTIVITY; STRUCTURAL TRANSITION;

DNA;

EID: 40949086004     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.031905     Document Type: Article

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