Sequence-Dependent Twist-Stretch Coupling in DNA
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Sequence-dependent twist-stretch coupling in DNA.
Recent single-molecule micromanipulation experiments on DNA subject to small distortion revealed positive coupling between DNA stretching and twisting--for instance, DNA elongates when overtwisted. Here we propose a method to calculate the twist-stretch coupling constant specific to a DNA fragment of a given sequence. The method employs a sequence-dependent dinucleotide force field and is based...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biophysical Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0006-3495
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.099572