Transitions between distinct compaction regimes in complexes of multivalent cationic lipids and DNA

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 836-846

  Farago, Oded ^a   Ewert, Kai ^b   Ahmad, Ayesha ^b   Evans, Heather M ^b   Grønbech Jensen, Niels ^c   Safinya, Cyrus R ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; LIPID; CATION;

ARTICLE; ENDOSOME; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYMERIZATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; PHASE TRANSITION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; LIPIDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHASE TRANSITION;

EID: 47749109054     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.124669     Document Type: Article

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