Scanning force microscopy under aqueous solutions

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 709-716

  Bustamante, Carlos ^a   Rivetti, Claudio ^b   Keller, David J ^c  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIORHODOPSIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; RNA POLYMERASE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL MEMBRANE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0030733963     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(97)80082-6     Document Type: Article

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