Transition between two regimes describing internal fluctuation of DNA in a nanochannel

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Su, Tianxiang ^a   Das, Somes K ^b   Xiao, Ming ^b   Purohit, Prashant K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b BioNanomatrix Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NANOCHANNEL; POLYMER; NANOMATERIAL; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOMICS; PROBABILITY; THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; HUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; DNA; DNA, VIRAL; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOSTRUCTURES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHASE TRANSITION;

EID: 79952639845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016890     Document Type: Article

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