Stretching of a single-stranded DNA: Evidence for structural transition

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

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Mishra, Garima ^a   Giri, Debaprasad ^b   Kumar, Sanjay ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE STACKING; FORCE EXTENSIONS; MULTI STEPS; REACTION COORDINATES; SINGLE STRANDED DNAS (SSDNA); SINGLE-STRANDED DNAS; STRUCTURAL CHANGES; STRUCTURAL TRANSITIONS;

DNA; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

GENES;

EID: 65449168441     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.031930     Document Type: Article

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