Cooperative kinking at distant sites in mechanically stressed DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 9820-9832

  Lionberger, Troy A ^a   Demurtas, Davide ^b,c   Witz, Guillaume ^b,c   Dorier, Julien ^b   Lillian, Todd ^a,d   Meyhöfer, Edgar ^a   Stasiak, Andrzej ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA TEMPLATE; DYNAMICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MECHANICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VITRIFICATION;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA, CIRCULAR; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 83755205430     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr666     Document Type: Article

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