Theoretical Analysis of Competing Conformational Transitions in Superhelical DNA
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Theoretical Analysis of Competing Conformational Transitions in Superhelical DNA
We develop a statistical mechanical model to analyze the competitive behavior of transitions to multiple alternate conformations in a negatively supercoiled DNA molecule of kilobase length and specified base sequence. Since DNA superhelicity topologically couples together the transition behaviors of all base pairs, a unified model is required to analyze all the transitions to which the DNA sequ...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Computational Biology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1553-7358
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002484