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. 1996 Dec;71(6):3523–3526. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79547-4

New evidence that the hydrophobic effect and dispersion are not major driving forces for nucleotide base stacking.

S H Gellman, T S Haque, L F Newcomb

PMCID: PMC1233839 PMID: 8968621

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