The self-assembly of DNA Holliday junctions studied with a minimal model

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Ouldridge, Thomas E ^a   Johnston, Iain G ^a   Louis, Ard A ^a   Doye, Jonathan P K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENES; MELTING; MELTING POINT; METAL MELTING; MODEL STRUCTURES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SUGARS;

COARSE-GRAINED MODELS; DIFFERENT STRUCTURES; DNA DUPLEXES; DNA HOLLIDAY JUNCTIONS; DNA NANOSTRUCTURES; HIERARCHICAL ASSEMBLIES; HOLLIDAY JUNCTIONS; INTERACTION SITES; MELTING TEMPERATURES; MINIMAL MODELS; PHOSPHATE BACKBONES; SELF- ASSEMBLIES; SIMPLE MODELS; TARGET STRUCTURES; TEMPERATURE WINDOWS;

ORGANIC ACIDS;

CRUCIFORM DNA; NANOMATERIAL; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENETICS; KINETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, CRUCIFORM; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; KINETICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOSTRUCTURES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 60349094386     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3055595     Document Type: Article

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