Lighting up individual DNA binding proteins with quantum dots

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1598-1603

  Ebenstein, Yuval ^a   Gassman, Natalie ^a   Kim, Soohong ^a   Antelman, Josh ^a   Kim, Younggyu ^a   Ho, Sam ^a   Samuel, Robin ^a   Michalet, Xavier ^a   Weiss, Shimon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR PROCESS; DIRECT VISUALIZATIONS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT QUANTUM DOTS; PROTEIN BINDINGS; PROTEIN-BINDING SITES; PROTEIN-DNA COMPLEXES; QUANTUM DOTS; RNA POLYMERASE; SINGLE MOLECULES;

BINDING ENERGY; BINDING SITES; BIOCHEMISTRY; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; RNA;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

BACTERIOPHAGE T7 RNA POLYMERASE; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; QUANTUM DOT; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE; METABOLISM;

DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; FLUORESCENCE; QUANTUM DOTS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 65249092143     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl803820b     Document Type: Article

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