DNA compaction in a crowded environment with negatively charged proteins

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Krotova, M K ^a   Vasilevskaya, V V ^b   Makita, N ^c   Yoshikawa, K ^d   Khokhlov, A R ^a,b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b A N NESMEYANOV INSTITUTE OF ORGANOELEMENT COMPOUNDS   (Russian Federation)

^c YOKKAICHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMINS; CHARGED PROTEINS; CONFORMATIONAL PROPERTIES; CROWDING EFFECTS; DNA COMPACTIONS; ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS; ELECTROSTATIC REPULSION; NEGATIVE CHARGE; SALT CONCENTRATION; SALT SOLUTION; THEORETICAL MODELS; TRANSLATIONAL ENTROPIES;

CONDENSATION; DNA; ELECTROSTATICS; GENES; PROTEINS;

BODY FLUIDS;

EID: 77957152753     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.128302     Document Type: Article

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