Effect of external stress on the thermal melting of DNA

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

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Rudnick, Joseph ^a   Kuriabova, Tatiana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELTING; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SPECIFIC HEAT; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EXTERNAL STRESS; THERMAL DENATURATION; THERMAL MELTING;

DNA;

EID: 43449102163     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.051903     Document Type: Article

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