Disentangling subpopulations in single-molecule FRET and ALEX experiments with photon distribution analysis

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1163-1173

  Tomov, Toma E ^a   Tsukanov, Roman ^a   Masoud, Rula ^a   Liber, Miran ^a   Plavner, Noa ^a   Nir, Eyal ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETICS; INVERTED REPEAT; LASER; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; STATISTICS;

DNA; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; LASERS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOTONS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84858048722     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.11.4025     Document Type: Article

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