End-to-end attraction of duplex DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3812-3821

  Maffeo, Christopher ^a   Luan, Binquan ^a   Aksimentiev, Aleksei ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ELECTROLYTE;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DISSOCIATION; DNA BINDING; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA HELIX; ENERGY; FORCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; INTERACTIONS WITH DNA; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

DNA; KINETICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 84861375893     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr1220     Document Type: Article

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