Anharmonic torsional stiffness of DNA revealed under small external torques

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Mazur, Alexey K ^a  

^a INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANHARMONIC; BASE PAIR SEQUENCES; CELLULAR PROCESS; DNA FRAGMENT; DNA SUPERCOILING; DOUBLE HELIX; EXTERNAL TORQUE; GENE REGULATIONS; LOCAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; SHORT SEQUENCES; SUPERCOILING; TORSIONAL STIFFNESS;

DNA; GENES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; STIFFNESS; TORSIONAL STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DNA SEQUENCES;

EID: 77954136751     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.018102     Document Type: Article

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