Sain, Anirban; Chen, Jeff Z.Y.; Ha, Bae-Yeun - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 369 (2006) 2, pp. 679-687
The chain persistency of single-stranded (ss) DNA at a high-salt limit mainly arises from the so-called base-stacking interaction between consecutive bases along the strand. Stacking is appreciable for purine–purine (e.g., A–A) and purine–pyrimidine stacks (e.g., A–T), but it is weak for...
