Local and global effects of strong DNA bending induced during molecular dynamics simulations

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3766-3773

  Curuksu, Jeremy ^a   Zacharias, Martin ^a   Lavery, Richard ^b   Zakrzewska, Krystyna ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; OLIGOMER;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ADENINE; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 67649883207     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp234     Document Type: Article

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