Direct measurement of the dielectric polarization properties of DNA

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 35, 2014, Pages

  Cuervo, Ana ^a   Dans, Pablo D ^b   Carrascosa, José L ^a,c   Orozco, Modesto ^b,d   Gomila, Gabriel ^d,e   Fumagalli, Laura ^d,e  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO MADRILEÑO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN NANOCIENCIA IMDEA NANOCIENCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTE FOR BIOENGINEERING OF CATALONIA IBEC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Atomistic simulations; DNA packaging; DNA ligand binding; Poisson Boltzmann equation

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DIPOLE; DNA BINDING; DNA PACKAGING; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; VIRION; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; DNA PACKAGING; DNA-LIGAND BINDING; POISSON-BOLTZMANN EQUATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CAPSID; CATIONS; DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY; DNA; DNA, VIRAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; LIGANDS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

EID: 84907228251     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1405702111     Document Type: Article

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