Force-Fluorescence Spectroscopy at the Single-Molecule Level

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 475, Issue C, 2010, Pages 405-426

  Zhou, Ruobo ^a   Schlierf, Michael ^a   Ha, Taekjip ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; DNA; PROTEIN;

BOOK; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DATA ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FORCE FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NANODEVICE; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; CHEMISTRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

DNA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 77954580825     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(10)75016-3     Document Type: Chapter

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