Mechanical measurements of a single protein molecule and human chromosomes by atomic force microscopy

Materials Science and Engineering C

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 233-240

  Ikai, Atsushi ^a   Mitsui, Keita ^a   Tokuoka, Hirohumi ^a   Xu, Xue Ming ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Mechanical unfolding of proteins; Young's modulus of chromosomes

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; FORCE MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULES; PROTEINS;

HUMAN CHROMOSOMES; MECHANICAL UNFOLDING;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0006039548     PISSN: 09284931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-4931(97)00006-4     Document Type: Article

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