Impact of methylation on the physical properties of DNA

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2140-2148

  Pérez, Alberto ^a,b   Castellazzi, Chiara Lara ^b   Battistini, Federica ^b   Collinet, Kathryn ^b   Flores, Oscar ^b   Deniz, Ozgen ^b   Ruiz, Maria Luz ^b   Torrents, David ^a,c   Eritja, Ramon ^b   Soler López, Montserrat ^b   Orozco, Modesto ^a,b,d  

^a BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CPG ISLANDS; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84860437700     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.03.056     Document Type: Article

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