Salt dependent association of novel mutants of TATA-binding proteins to DNA: Predictions from theory and experiments

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1132-1153

  Bredenberg, Johan H ^a   Fenley, Marcia O ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Florida State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Binding; DNA; Electrostatics; Molecular mechanics; Poisson Boltzmann equation; Salt dependence; TATA binding proteins

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849130978     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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