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Ostrovsky, 1995, Motion of polymer ends in homopolymer and heteropolymer collapse, Biophys J, 68, 1694, 10.1016/S0006-3495(95)80347-4

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Duguid, 1993, Raman spectroscopy of DNA—metal complexes. I. Interactions and conformational effects of the divalent cations: Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Pd, and Cd, Biophys J, 65, 1916, 10.1016/S0006-3495(93)81263-3

Tajmir-Riahi, 1993, The effects of cobalt hexammine and cobalt pentammine cations on the solution structure of calf-thymus DNA. DNA condensation and structural features studied by FTIR difference spectroscopy, J Biomol Struct Dyn, 11, 83, 10.1080/07391102.1993.10508711

Tajmir-Riahi, 1993, Interaction of calf-thymus DNA with trivalent La, Eu, and Tb ions. Metal ion binding, DNA condensation and structural features, J Biomol Struct Dyn, 10, 865, 10.1080/07391102.1993.10508680

Tajmir-Riahi, 1993, The effects of Cu2+ and Pb2+ on the solution structure of calf thymus DNA: DNA condensation and denaturation studied by Fourier transform IR difference spectroscopy, Biopolymers, 33, 1819, 10.1002/bip.360331208

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Timsit, 1994, DNA self-fitting: the double helix directs the geometry of its supramolecular assembly, EMBO J, 13, 2737, 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1994.tb06567.x

Timsit, 1995, Self-fitting and self-modifying properties of the B-DNA molecule, J Mol Biol, 251, 629, 10.1006/jmbi.1995.0461

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De la Cruz, 1995, Precipitation of highly charged polyelectrolyte solutions in the presence of multivalent salts, J Chem Phys, 103, 5781, 10.1063/1.470459

Lyubartsev, 1995, Monte Carlo simulation study of ion distribution and osmotic pressure in hexagonally oriented DNA, J Phys Chem, 99, 10373, 10.1021/j100025a046

Podgornik, 1995, Watching molecules crowd: DNA double helices under osmotic stress, Biophys Chem, 57, 111, 10.1016/0301-4622(95)00058-6

Rau, 1992, Direct measurement of temperature-dependent solvation forces between DNA double helices, Biophys J, 61, 260, 10.1016/S0006-3495(92)81832-5

Leikin, 1991, Measured entropy and enthalpy of hydration as a function of distance between DNA double helices, Phys Rev A, 44, 5272, 10.1103/PhysRevA.44.5272

Rau, 1992, Direct measurement of the intermolecular forces between counterion-condensed DNA double helices. Evidence for long range attractive hydration forces, Biophys J, 61, 246, 10.1016/S0006-3495(92)81831-3

Podgornik, 1994, Parametrization of direct and soft steric—undulatory forces between DNA double helical polyelectrolytes in solutions of several different anions and cations, Biophys J, 66, 962, 10.1016/S0006-3495(94)80877-X

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Wissenburg, 1995, Multimolecular aggregation of mononucleosomal DNA in concentrated isotropic solutions, Macromolecules, 28, 2315, 10.1021/ma00111a027

Odijk, 1994, Long-range attractions in polyelectrolyte solutions, Macromolecules, 27, 4998, 10.1021/ma00096a023

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