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Displacements of backbone vibrational modes of A-DNA and B-DNA
Biophysical Journal
|October 1, 1979
Abstract:
We display the displacement vectors or eigenvectors of calculations of the A- and B-DNA backbones. These calculations are based on a refinement scheme that simultaneously fit several backbone modes of A-DNA, B-DNA, and A-RNA. We discuss the role of symmetry operations in mode calculations and the relevance of these displacement vectors to the interpretation of linear dichroism measurements performed on the A- and B-DNA helix.
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