A measure of bending in nucleic acids structures applied to A-tract DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3414-3422

  Lankas F ^a   Spackova N ^b   Moakher, M ^c   Enkhbayar, P ^d   Sponer J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c ENIT LAMSIN   (Tunisia)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MONGOLIA   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HELIX; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE NUMBER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION;

ADENINE; DNA; RNA; THYMINE;

ADENINE; DNA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; THYMINE;

EID: 77953697462     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq001     Document Type: Article

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