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. 1979 Dec;76(12):6341–6345. doi: 10.1073/pnas.76.12.6341

Internal motions in DNA.

M E Hogan, O Jardetzky
PMCID: PMC411860  PMID: 293725

Abstract

We have measured the 31P and 1H NMR parameters of fractionated double-stranded DNA fragments 600, 300, and 150 base pairs long. The results indicate that, inside an intact double helix, both the deoxyribose and the sugar-phosphate backbone of the helix fluctuate substantially from their equilibrium geometry. The time constant for those coupled motions is of the order of 1 nsec.

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