Analyzing ion distributions around DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 8138-8149

  Lavery, Richard ^a   Maddocks, John H ^b   Pasi, Marco ^b   Zakrzewska, Krystyna ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE ET CHIMIE DES PROTÉINES   (France)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ION; LIGAND; NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGOMER; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

CHLORIDES; DNA; IONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM;

EID: 84903957372     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku504     Document Type: Article

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