Stretching short sequences of DNA with constant force axial optical tweezers

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 56, 2011, Pages 1-6

  Raghunathan, Krishnan ^a   Milstein, Joshua N ^a   Meiners, Jens Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Axial optical tweezers; Bioengineering; Biophysics; Dna; Dna stretching; Genetics; Issue 56; Single molecule biophysics

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

CHEMISTRY; DNA; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

EID: 80054955435     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3405     Document Type: Article

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