Analyzing ion distributions around DNA: Sequence-dependence of potassium ion distributions from microsecond molecular dynamics

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2412-2423

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MONOVALENT CATION; POTASSIUM;

CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CATIONS, MONOVALENT; DNA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POTASSIUM;

EID: 84941073491     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv080     Document Type: Article

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