DNA stretching and multivalent-cation-induced condensation

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

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Mamasakhlisov, Yevgeni Sh ^a   Todd, Brian A ^b   Badasyan, Artem V ^a   Mkrtchyan, Anna V ^a   Morozov, Vladimir F ^a   Parsegian, V Adrian ^c  

^a YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA STRETCHING; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FINITE LENGTH; FIRST ORDER TRANSITIONS; HETEROGENEOUS POLYMERS; HOMOGENEOUS POLYMERS; MEAN FIELD APPROACH; MECHANICAL MODEL; MICROSCOPIC PARAMETER; MULTIVALENT CATIONS; PERSISTENCE LENGTH; SEMIFLEXIBLE POLYMERS; SINGLE MOLECULE EXPERIMENTS; SINGLE-VALUE; THERMODYNAMIC LIMITS;

COMPACTION; CONDENSATION; DNA; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; POSITIVE IONS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 70349896938     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031915     Document Type: Article

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