Transport of torsional stress in DNA.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on December 07, 1999

Authors

P Nelson1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. nelson@physics.upenn.edu

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