Supercoiling induces denaturation bubbles in circular DNA

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 20, 2010, Pages

  Jeon, Jae Hyung ^a   Adamcik, Jozef ^b   Dietler, Giovanni ^b   Metzler, Ralf ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE PAIRS; DNA BUBBLES; DNA PLASMIDS; DNA SUPERCOILING; DOUBLE-STRANDED DNA MOLECULE; FREE SOLUTIONS; IMAGING EXPERIMENTS; IN-VIVO; SALT CONCENTRATION; SUPERCOILED DNA; SUPERCOILING; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

DNA;

EID: 78349293890     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.208101     Document Type: Article

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