Studying genomic processes at the single-molecule level: Introducing the tools and applications

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 9-22

  Dulin, David ^a   Lipfert, Jan ^a   Moolman, M Charl ^a   Dekker, Nynke H ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; INITIATION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONFORMATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HYDROLYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPLISOME; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY; STOICHIOMETRY;

DNA REPLICATION; GENETIC PHENOMENA; GENOMICS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84871513032     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3316     Document Type: Review

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