Discrimination among individual Watson-Crick base pairs at the termini of single DNA hairpin molecules

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1311-1318

  Vercoutere, Wenonah A ^a,b   Winters Hilt, Stephen ^a,b   DeGuzman, Veronica S ^a,b   Deamer, David ^a,b   Ridino, Sam E ^a   Rodgers, Joseph T ^a   Olsen, Hugh E ^b   Marziali, Andre ^c   Akeson, Mark ^a,b  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BASE; HEMOLYSIN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE;

ALGORITHM; BASE PAIRING; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA PURIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENETIC STABILITY; HYDROGEN BOND; ION CURRENT; KINETICS; MACHINE; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; KINETICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; TOLUENE;

EID: 0037440660     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg218     Document Type: Review

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