Conductivity of natural and modified DNA measured by scanning tunneling microscopy. The effect of sequence, charge and stacking

Biophysical Chemistry

Volumn 138, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 3-10

  Kratochvílová, Irena ^a   Král, Karel ^a   Bunček, Martin ^b   Víšková, Alena ^b   Nešpůrek, Stanislav ^c   Kochalska, Anna ^c   Todorciuc, Tatiana ^c   Weiter, Martin ^d   Schneider, Bohdan ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b Generi Biotech sro   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^d BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Charge transport in molecular systems; DNA conductivity; Electronic properties of biomolecules; STM

Indexed keywords

DNA; PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GOLD; HYDROGEN BONDING; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING TUNNELING; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PHOSPHATES;

EID: 53349161912     PISSN: 03014622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2008.08.005     Document Type: Article

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