From mechanical folding trajectories to intrinsic energy landscapes of biopolymers

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

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4500-4505

  Hinczewski, Michael ^a   Gebhardt, Christof M ^b,c   Rief, Matthias ^b   Thirumalai, D ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER; DNA; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HAIRPIN; DNA STRUCTURE; ENERGY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL ROTATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SIMULATION; TENSION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

DNA; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA;

EID: 84875249565     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1214051110     Document Type: Article

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