The role of water structure in conformational changes of nucleic acids in ambient and high‐pressure conditions
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- 1 March 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 260 (2) , 293-307
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00184.x
Abstract
This review describes and summarizes data on the structure and properties of water under normal conditions, at high salt concentration and under high pressure. We correlate the observed conformationa...Keywords
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