First-principles calculation of DNA looping in tethered particle experiments

Physical Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Towles, Kevin B ^a   Beausang, John F ^a   Garcia, Hernan G ^b   Phillips, Rob ^b   Nelson, Philip C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LAC REPRESSOR PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; DENSITY; DNA BINDING; ELASTICITY; ENERGY; ENTROPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 68349150612     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/6/2/025001     Document Type: Article

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