Extracting kinetics from single-molecule force spectroscopy: Nanopore unzipping of DNA hairpins

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4188-4195

  Dudko, Olga K ^a   Mathé, Jérôme ^c   Szabo, Attila ^b   Meller, Amit ^d   Hummer, Gerhard ^b  

^a Division of Computational Bioscience   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HAIRPIN DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY; FORCE; INFORMATION; KINETICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEASUREMENT; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULE; NANOPORE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; THEORETICAL MODEL; THEORY; VALIDATION STUDY; VELOCITY;

EID: 34250356054     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.102855     Document Type: Article

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