Watching Individual Proteins Acting on Single Molecules of DNA

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 472, Issue , 2010, Pages 261-291

  Amitani, Ichiro ^a   Liu, Bian ^a   Dombrowski, Christopher C ^a   Baskin, Ronald J ^a   Kowalczykowski, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CARBOCYANINE; CYANINE DYE 3; DNA; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; FLUORESCENT DYE; NANOPARTICLE; PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN; RAD51 PROTEIN, HUMAN; RECA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

ANTIBODIES; CARBOCYANINES; DNA; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE V; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PROTEINS; RAD51 RECOMBINASE; REC A RECOMBINASES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 77957023630     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: 15577988     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(10)72007-3     Document Type: Chapter

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