Combining Optical Tweezers, Single-Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy, and Microfluidics for Studies of DNA-Protein Interactions

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 475, Issue C, 2010, Pages 427-453

  Gross, Peter ^a   Farge, Géraldine ^a   Peterman, Erwin J G ^a   Wuite, Gijs J L ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; FLUORESCENT DYE; RAD51 PROTEIN; REPLICATION FACTOR A; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING;

BIOTINYLATION; BLEACHING; BOOK; CHEMICAL LABELING; DNA BINDING; DNA ISOLATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROFLUIDICS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SINGLE MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM;

DNA; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 77954586689     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(10)75017-5     Document Type: Chapter

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