Critical Torque for Kink Formation in Double-Stranded DNA

Physical Review X

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1-11

  Qu, Hao ^a   Wang, Yong ^a   Tseng, Chiao Yu ^a   Zocchi, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological Physics; Nonlinear Dynamics; Soft Matter

Indexed keywords

BENDING ENERGIES; BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS; CHARACTERISTIC ENERGY; DNA BENDING; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ELASTIC ENERGY; MELTING CURVES; NON-LINEAR ELASTIC BEHAVIOR; RING MOLECULES; SINGLE PARAMETER; SOFT MATTER;

DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULES;

DNA;

EID: 84861953342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.1.021008     Document Type: Article

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