Behavior of complex knots in single DNA molecules

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 26, 2003, Pages

  Bao, Xiaoyan R ^a   Lee, Heun Jin ^a   Quake, Stephen R ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; VIRUS DNA;

CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ELASTICITY; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; GENETICS;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BIOTIN; DNA LIGASES; DNA, VIRAL; ELASTICITY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

ENZYMES; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPTICAL DEVICES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMAL DIFFUSION; TOPOLOGY;

COMPLEX KNOTS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

DNA;

EID: 1042300668     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.265506     Document Type: Article

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