The snakelike chain character of unstructured RNA

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 105, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2569-2576

  Jacobson, David R ^a   McIntosh, Dustin B ^a   Saleh, Omar A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; RNA;

EID: 84889568499     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.10.019     Document Type: Article

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