Transcription-driven twin supercoiling of a DMA loop: A Brownian dynamics study

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 121, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 8104-8112

  Mielke, Steven P ^a,b   Fink, William H ^a   Krishnan, V V ^b   Grønbech Jensen, Niels ^a   Benham, Craig J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MODEL; EUKARYOTES; PROKARYOTES; TRANSCRIPTION;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DNA; ENZYMES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RNA; TOPOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; TORQUE;

DNA, SUPERHELICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; TORQUE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 8344267602     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1799613     Document Type: Article

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