Remeasuring the double helix

Science

Volumn 322, Issue 5900, 2008, Pages 446-449

  Mathew Fenn, Rebecca S ^a   Das, Rhiju ^a,b   Harbury, Pehr A B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GOLD; NANOCRYSTAL;

DATA ACQUISITION; DNA; ELASTIC MODULUS; EXPERIMENT; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA HELIX; ELASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TENSION; VARIANCE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BASE PAIRING; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; ELECTROSTATICS; GOLD; MATHEMATICS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 54249088052     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1158881     Document Type: Article

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