Is DNA's rigidity dominated by electrostatic or nonelectrostatic interactions?

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 48, 2011, Pages 19290-19293

  Savelyev, Alexey ^a,b   Materese, Christopher K ^a   Papoian, Garegin A ^a,c  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASE PAIR STACKING; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; COARSE-GRAINED FORCE FIELDS; CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; INDEPENDENT SET; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS;

BIOPOLYMERS; ELECTROSTATICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RIGIDITY;

DNA;

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA RIGIDITY; DNA STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; SIMULATION;

BASE PAIRING; DNA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 82555175927     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja207984z     Document Type: Article

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