Tension-dependent structural deformation alters single-molecule transition kinetics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1885-1890

  Sudhanshu, B ^a   Mihardja, S ^b   Koslover, E F ^c   Mehraeen, S ^a   Bustamante, C ^d   Spakowitz, A J ^a,c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; DNA; Polymer physics; Single molecule experiments; Statistical mechanics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA STRAND; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOPHYSICS; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEOSOMES;

EID: 79952133560     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1010047108     Document Type: Article

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