Small anion with higher valency retards the compaction of DNA in the presence of multivalent cation

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1068-1075

  Saito, Takuya ^a,c   Iwaki, Takafumi ^b   Yoshikawa, Kenichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Okayama Institute for Quantum Physics   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANION; CATION; CHLORIDE ION; DNA; PHOSPHATE; POLYELECTROLYTE; SULFATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; SODIUM SULFATE; SPERMINE;

ARTICLE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ENTROPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DRUG EFFECT; THERMODYNAMICS;

DNA; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOSPHATES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPERMINE; SULFATES; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 61549126911     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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