Stretching of single collapsed DNA molecules

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1965-1978

  Baumann, Christoph G ^a,d   Bloomfield, Victor A ^a   Smith, Steven B ^b   Bustamante, Carlos ^b   Wang, Michelle D ^c,e   Block, Steven M ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT COMPLEX; DNA; SODIUM ION; SPERMIDINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA PACKAGING; ELASTICITY; ENTROPY; LASER; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; OSMOTIC STRESS; STRETCHING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034071761     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(00)76744-0     Document Type: Article

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