DNA energy landscapes via calorimetric detection of microstate ensembles of metastable macrostates and triplet repeat diseases

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 47, 2008, Pages 18326-18330

  Völker, Jens ^a   Klump, Horst H ^b   Breslauer, Kenneth J ^a,c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calorimetry; Nucleic acid conformations

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER; DNA;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; CALORIMETRY; CONFORMATION; DNA ENERGY; DNA FOLDING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENERGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE, METABOLISM AND FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA FOLDING; SPECTROSCOPY;

CALORIMETRY; DNA; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 57449116795     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0810376105     Document Type: Article

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