DNA-DNA interactions in bacteriophage capsids are responsible for the observed DNA knotting

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 52, 2009, Pages 22269-22274

  Marenduzzo, Davide ^a   Orlandini, Enzo ^b   Stasiak, Andrzej ^c   De Sumners, Witt ^d   Tubiana, Luca ^e   Micheletti, Cristian ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SEZIONE DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

DNA packaging; Monte carlo simulations

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONFORMATION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA STRUCTURE; GENOME; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VIRUS CAPSID;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; CAPSID; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA PACKAGING; DNA, VIRAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; THERMODYNAMICS;

MIRIDAE;

EID: 76149131390     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907524106     Document Type: Article

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