Shape and energetics of DNA plectonemes

IUTAM Bookseries

Volumn 16, Issue , 2010, Pages 123-138

  Purohit, P K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIGURATIONAL ENTROPY; ELASTIC ROD; END-TO-END DISTANCES; LENGTH SCALE; MONOVALENT COUNTERIONS; PLECTONEMES; ROD MODEL; SINGLE MOLECULE; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

DISSOCIATION; DNA; ELECTROSTATICS; ENTROPY; TISSUE;

MECHANICS;

EID: 84862548762     PISSN: 18753507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3348-2_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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