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Helix Transitions

Helix Transitions is a theoretical construct in nucleic acid dynamics that characterizes the structural interconversions between distinct helical conformations of DNA or RNA, such as B-to-A or Z-form transitions, driven by environmental or sequence-specific factors.

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877

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349

Theory of the Phase Transition between Helix and Random Coil in Polypeptide Chains

B Zimm, J. K. Bragg · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1959 · 1.8K citations

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Co-operative non-enzymatic base recognition III. Kinetics of the helix—coil transition of the oligoribouridylic · oligoriboadenylic acid system and of oligoriboadenylic acid alone at acidic pH

Dietmar Pörschke, Manfred Eigen · Journal of Molecular Biology · 1971 · 434 citations

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Energetics of B-to-Z transition in DNA.

Lawrence J. Peck, J C Wang · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1983 · 349 citations · Full text

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Theoretical calculations of the helix–coil transition of DNA in the presence of large, cooperatively binding ligands

James D. McGhee · Biopolymers · 1976 · 308 citations

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Early and late helix-coil transitions in closed circular DNA the number of superhelical turns in polyoma DNA

Jerome Vinograd, Jacob Lebowitz, Robert H. Watson · Journal of Molecular Biology · 1968 · 306 citations

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Authors

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  1. HA
    Harold A. Scheraga

    Cornell University, United States

    9 publications · 395 citations

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  2. RD
    Robert D. Wells

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    5 publications · 229 citations

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  3. JI
    Jean Igolen

    Institut Pasteur, France

    5 publications · 116 citations

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  4. JN
    Jean‐Michel Neumann

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    5 publications · 116 citations

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  5. JH
    Julian H. Gibbs

    Brown University, United States

    5 publications · 424 citations

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Institutions

324

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    10 h-index

    29 publications

    2K citations

  2. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    10 h-index

    22 publications

    1.3K citations

  3. Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry

    Göttingen, Germany

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    1.3K citations

  4. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    7 h-index

    11 publications

    789 citations

  5. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    6 h-index

    8 publications

    298 citations

  6. University of California, San Francisco

    San Francisco, United States

    6 h-index

    13 publications

    1.2K citations

  7. National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, United States

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    587 citations

  8. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    6 h-index

    16 publications

    315 citations

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  1. Biopolymers

    71 publications · 3.7K citations

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  2. The Journal of Chemical Physics

    22 publications · 2.9K citations

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  3. Nucleic Acids Research

    18 publications · 1.1K citations

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  4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 16 publications · 1.4K citations

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  5. Journal of Molecular Biology

    JMB · 14 publications · 2.2K citations

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