Effects of stacking on the configurations and elasticity of single-stranded nucleic acids

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 4-

  Buhot, A ^a   Halperin, A ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; ELASTICITY; ELECTROSTATICS; ENTHALPY; ENTROPY; ENZYMES; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MONOMERS; PROBABILITY; QUENCHING; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

HOMOPOLYNUCLEOTIDES; KUHN LENGTH; LIBCHABER GROUP; POLYDISPERSITIES;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

ADENOSINE; DEOXYADENOSINE PHOSPHATE HOMOPOLYMER; NUCLEIC ACID; POLYADENOSINE; POLYADENYLIC ACID; POLYMER; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

ADENOSINE; BIOPHYSICS; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; POLY A; POLYMERS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 42749104988     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.020902     Document Type: Article

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