Tuning DNA-amphiphile condensate architecture with strongly binding counterions

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

Volumn 109, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 6394-6398

  Radhakrishnan, A V ^a   Ghosh, S K ^a   Pabst, G ^b   Raghunathan, V A ^a   Sood, A K ^c  

^a RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Electrostatic self assembly; Small angle X ray scattering; Surfactant DNA complexes

Indexed keywords

AMPHOPHILE; DNA;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFRACTION; DNA BINDING; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRON; MICELLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING;

DNA; MICELLES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84860141128     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1115541109     Document Type: Article

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