The imaging and dissecting of pBR322 plasmid DNA by AFM

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 42, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 1093-1096

  Tian, Fang ^a   Li, Jianwei ^a   Wang, Chen ^a   Bai, Chunli ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscope; Plasmid DNA; Probe force

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011206590     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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