DNA bending through roll angles is independent of adjacent base pairs

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 3029-3033

  Spiriti, Justin ^a   Van Der Vaart, Arjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biophysical Chemistry and Biomolecules

Indexed keywords

BASE PAIRS; BENDING ENERGIES; COARSE GRAINED MODELS; COOPERATIVITY; DNA BENDING; FREE ENERGY SURFACE; ROLL ANGLE; UMBRELLA SAMPLING;

DNA; FREE ENERGY;

BIOMOLECULES;

EID: 84867636708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz301227y     Document Type: Article

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