Understanding nucleic acid-ion interactions

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volumn 83, Issue , 2014, Pages 813-841

  Lipfert, Jan ^a,b   Doniach, Sebastian ^c   Das, Rhiju ^d   Herschlag, Daniel ^d  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Applied Physics   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

electrostatics; free energy; Hill equation; ions; Manning condensation; Poisson Boltzmann; RNA DNA

Indexed keywords

COUNTERION; DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; EDETIC ACID; ION; MACROGOL; METAL ION; MONOVALENT CATION; NUCLEIC ACID; POLYAMINE; POLYELECTROLYTE; RNA; CATION; MAGNESIUM; METAL;

ATMOSPHERE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN BOND; IONIC STRENGTH; LIGAND BINDING; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULE; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA FOLDING; RNA STRUCTURE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFORMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; BINDING SITES; CATIONS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; IONS; MAGNESIUM; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RNA; SOFTWARE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84902148550     PISSN: 00664154     EISSN: 15454509     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-060409-092720     Document Type: Review

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