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| Provedor de dados: |
Genet. Mol. Biol.
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
The Euclidean Steiner Ratio and the measure of chirality of biomacromolecules
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| Autores: |
Mondaini,R. P.
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| Data: |
2004-01-01
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| Ano: |
2004
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| Palavras-chave: |
Steiner Ratio
Chirality
Upper bound
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| Resumo: |
The study of Euclidean Steiner Trees is one of the alternative methods to unveil Nature's plans for the internal architecture of biomacromolecules. Recently, the minimum surface structure of the A-DNA and of the Tobacco Mosaic Virus was shown to be described by a "strake" surface. These results have been substantiated by an explicit calculation of the Steiner Ratio Function in a very restrictive modelling scheme. In the present work, we also introduce the measure of chirality as an essential part of a thermodynamical approach to model biomolecular structure. In a certain sense, the Steiner Ratio function is constrained by the chirality measure to assume a value dictated by Nature. This value is a measure of the free energy of the molecular configuration.
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| Tipo: |
Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572004000400030
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| Editor: |
Sociedade Brasileira de Genética
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| Relação: |
10.1590/S1415-47572004000400030
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| Formato: |
text/html
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| Fonte: |
Genetics and Molecular Biology v.27 n.4 2004
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| Direitos: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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