Strong bending of the DNA double helix

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 6785-6792

  Vologodskii, Alexander ^a   Frank Kamenetskii, Maxim D ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ANALYSIS; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA HELIX; DNA STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THEORETICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA; DNA, CIRCULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 84881521537     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt396     Document Type: Review

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