Electrostatics and self-contact in an elastic rod approximation for DNA

Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lillian, Todd D ^a   Perkins, N C ^b  

^a Texas Tech University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR PROCESS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACIDS; DNA LOOPING; DNA SUPERCOILING; DYNAMIC PROCESS; ELASTIC ROD; ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS; EQUILIBRIUM MODELS; FLEXIBLE MOLECULES; GENETIC INFORMATION; LAC REPRESSOR; PLECTONEMES; REGULATORY PROTEIN; ROD APPROXIMATIONS; STORAGE AND RETRIEVALS; SUPERCOILED DNA;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ELECTROSTATICS; GENES; ORGANIC ACIDS; TRANSCRIPTION;

DNA;

EID: 78649931178     PISSN: 15551415     EISSN: 15551423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4002267     Document Type: Article

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