A molecular ruler for measuring quantitative distance distributions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Mathew Fenn, Rebecca S ^a   Das, Rhiju ^a,b   Silverman, Joshua A ^a,c   Walker, Peter A ^a   Harbury, Pehr A B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Avidia Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTAL; DNA; NANOPARTICLE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA DENATURATION; DNA STRUCTURE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOLECULAR RULER; NANOANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ENTROPY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE; X RAY;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; ENTROPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOPARTICLES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; TEMPERATURE; X-RAYS;

EID: 55849140201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003229     Document Type: Article

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