Visualizing protein-nucleic acid interactions on a large scale with the scanning force microscope

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 25, Issue , 1996, Pages 395-429

  Bustamante, Carlos ^a   Rivetti, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

protein induced DNA bending; scanning force microscopy

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN;

CHROMATIN; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVIEW; SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY; STOICHIOMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0029970157     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.bb.25.060196.002143     Document Type: Review

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