Conformational response of supercoiled DNA to confinement in a nanochannel

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 129, Issue 16, 2008, Pages

  Lim, Wilber ^a   Ng, Siow Yee ^a   Lee, Chinchai ^a   Feng, Yuan Ping ^a   Van Der Maarel, Johan R C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; DNA; FLOW INTERACTIONS; GENES; IONIC STRENGTH; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOFLUIDICS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS;

ABSOLUTE VALUES; BENDING ENERGIES; CONFIGURATIONAL ENTROPIES; CONFORMATIONAL PROPERTIES; CONFORMATIONAL RESPONSES; ELECTROSTATIC ENERGIES; MONOVALENT SALTS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NANOCHANNEL; SIMULATION RESULTS; STRUCTURAL FEATURES; STRUCTURAL RESPONSES; SUPERCOILED DNAS; SUPERHELICAL DENSITIES; TUBE DIAMETERS; WORMLIKE CHAIN MODELS; WRITHING NUMBERS;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOSTRUCTURES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 55349088905     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2992076     Document Type: Article

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