Direct observation of nanomechanical properties of chromatin in living cells

Nano Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1424-1427

  De Vries, Anthony H B ^a,c   Krenn, Bea E ^b   Van Driel, Roel ^b   Subramaniam, Vinod ^a   Kanger, Johannes S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; MAGNETIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; NANOMECHANICS; VISCOSITY;

CELL CYTOPLASM; NANOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

CELLS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; HELA CELL; HUMAN; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

CHROMATIN; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 34249719540     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl070603+     Document Type: Article

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