Competition between curls and plectonemes near the buckling transition of stretched supercoiled DNA

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Marko, John F ^a   Neukirch, Sébastien ^b,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT JEAN LE ROND D ALEMBERT   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING TRANSITIONS; LOW SALT CONCENTRATION; MEASUREMENT APPARATUS; MESOSCOPIC MODELS; NATURAL TRANSITION; PHYSIOLOGICAL SALT; PLECTONEMES; SINGLE MOLECULE EXPERIMENTS; SUPERCOILED; SUPERCOILED DNA; SUPERCOILING;

ENTROPY; ENZYMES; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

DNA;

EID: 84856529153     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.011908     Document Type: Article

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