Single molecule microscopy methods for the study of DNA origami structures

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 688-698

  Birkedal, Victoria ^a   Dong, Mingdong ^a   Golas, Monika M ^a   Sander, Bjoern ^a,b   Andersen, Ebbe Sloth ^a   Gothelf, Kurt Vesterager ^a   Besenbacher, Flemming ^a   Kjems, Jørgen ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Cryogenic transmission electron microscopy; DNA nanostructures; Fluorescence microscopy; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; DNA; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOSTRUCTURES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES;

ATOMIC-FORCE-MICROSCOPY; BIOLOGICAL NANOSTRUCTURES; CRYOGENIC TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; DNA NANOSTRUCTURES; DNA STRUCTURE; MICROSCOPY ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUE; SELF-ASSEMBLED DNA; SINGLE-MOLECULE FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; SINGLE-MOLECULE MICROSCOPY;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

EID: 79959505950     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20962     Document Type: Review

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