Fluorescence methods to study DNA translocation and unwinding kinetics by nucleic acid motors

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 875, Issue , 2012, Pages 85-104

  Fischer, Christopher J ^a   Tomko, Eric J ^b   Wu, Colin G ^b   Lohman, Timothy M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ATPase; Helicase; Motor protein; Stopped flow kinetics; Translocase

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; HELICASE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; DNA TRANSLOCATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOICHIOMETRY; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DNA; DNA HELICASES; HYDROLYSIS; KINETICS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84865828490     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-806-1_5     Document Type: Article

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