Hairpin formation and elongation of biomolecules

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 2178-2181

  Montanari, Andrea ^a   Mézard, Marc ^b  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY; CHEMICAL BONDS; CONFORMATIONS; CURVE FITTING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

BIOMOLECULES; BOND STRETCHING; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ELASTIC CONSTANT CHARACTERISTIC; HAIRPIN FORMATION; PAIR BINDING ENERGY; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM; THERMALIZED CONFORMATIONS;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ELASTICITY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 6644229670     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2178     Document Type: Article

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