Demonstration that the shear force required to separate short double-stranded DNA does not increase significantly with sequence length for sequences longer than 25 base pairs

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

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Hatch, K ^a   Danilowicz, C ^a   Coljee, V ^a   Prentiss, M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; DNA; FORECASTING; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS);

AB-INITIO; ASYMPTOTIC VALUES; BASE PAIRS; DNA LENGTH; DOUBLE-STRANDED DNA; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; RUPTURE FORCE; SEQUENCE LENGTHS; SHEAR FORCE; SPRING CONSTANTS;

DNA SEQUENCES;

EID: 48849096217     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.011920     Document Type: Article

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