Polarization-sensitive two-photon microscopy study of the organization of liquid-crystalline DNA

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2348-2357

  Mojzisova, Halina ^a,b   Olesiak, Joanna ^c   Zielinski, Marcin ^a   Matczyszyn, Katarzyna ^c   Chauvat, Dominique ^a   Zyss, Joseph ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHOTONIQUE QUANTIQUE ET MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan   (France)

^c WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; PROPIDIUM IODIDE;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; DNA BINDING; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRAND; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; POLARIZATION;

EID: 70449135168     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.07.053     Document Type: Article

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