Force-induced melting of DNA - Evidence for peeling and internal melting from force spectra on short synthetic duplex sequences

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 8083-8091

  Bosaeus, Niklas ^a   El Sagheer, Afaf H ^b   Brown, Tom ^b   Åkerman, Björn ^a   Nordén, Bengt ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA DENATURATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AT RICH SEQUENCE; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; DNA; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION;

EID: 84904013417     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku441     Document Type: Article

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