Effects of the nucleoid protein HU on the structure, flexibility, and ring-closure properties of DNA deduced from Monte Carlo simulations.

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Published in J Mol Biol on June 19, 2008

Authors

Luke Czapla1, David Swigon, Wilma K Olson

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology, Wright-Rieman Laboratories, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.

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