Two-phase stretching of molecular chains

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2816-2821

  Savin, Alexander V ^a   Kikot, Irina P ^a   Mazo, Mikhail A ^a   Onufriev, Alexey V ^b  

^a SEMENOV INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

helix extension; Coarse grained DNA model; DNA overstretching; General mechanism; Polymer force extension

Indexed keywords

HALIDE; MONOMER; POLYMER;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DNA HELIX; DNA SEQUENCE; ENERGY; HYDROGEN BOND; MECHANICAL TORSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; STRETCHING; TENSION;

DNA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 84874240170     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218677110     Document Type: Article

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