Atomic force microscopy imaging and pulling of nucleic acids

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 380-385

  Hansma, Helen G ^a   Kasuya, Kenichi ^a,b   Oroudjev, Emin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AFM; Atomic force microscopy microscope; Base pairs; bp; Double stranded; ds; MMTV; Mouse mammary tumor virus; Single stranded; ss

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DRUG DNA BINDING; HELA CELL; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; TELOMERE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

DNA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IONS; LIGANDS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEINS; TELOMERE;

MOUSE MAMMARY TUMOR VIRUS;

EID: 2942516287     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2004.05.005     Document Type: Review

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