Mechanical properties of symmetric and asymmetric DNA A-tracts: Implications for looping and nucleosome positioning

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7383-7394

  Dršata, Tomáš ^a,b   Špačková, Naďa ^b   Jurečka, Petr ^c   Zgarbová, Marie ^c   Šponer, Jiří ^b,d   Lankaš, Filip ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d CENTRAL EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC DNA A TRACT; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA LOOPING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GLOBAL BENDING; GLOBAL STIFFNESS; GLOBAL TWISTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEOSOME; NUCLEOSOME POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMMETRIC DNA A TRACT;

ADENINE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; DNA; ENTROPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOSOMES; POLY A;

EID: 84903208755     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku338     Document Type: Article

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