Separation of preferential interaction and excluded volume effects on DNA duplex and hairpin stability

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

Volumn 108, Issue 31, 2011, Pages 12699-12704

  Knowles, D B ^a   LaCroix, Andrew S ^a   Deines, Nickolas F ^a   Shkel, Irina ^a   Record Jr , M Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

M value; Macromolecular crowding; PEG; Polymer excluded volume

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MACROGOL; MONOMER; OLIGOMER; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CALORIMETRY; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; DNA HAIRPIN; DNA STRAND; ENZYME STABILITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMER EXCLUDED VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; ETHYLENE GLYCOLS; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYMERS; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 79961215482     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1103382108     Document Type: Article

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