Torque measurement at the single-molecule level

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 583-604

  Forth, Scott ^a   Sheinin, Maxim Y ^b   Inman, James ^b   Wang, Michelle D ^b,c  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Cornell Center for Materials Research   (United States)

^c Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

angular optical trapping; DNA phase transitions; magnetic tweezers; rotary molecular motors; rotor bead tracking

Indexed keywords

DNA; MOLECULAR MOTOR; RNA POLYMERASE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA STRAND; MEASUREMENT; MECHANICAL TORSION; MOLECULE; NUCLEOSOME; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORQUE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; DNA; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; HUMANS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; PROTEINS; ROTATION; TORQUE;

EID: 84877773758     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: 19361238     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-083012-130412     Document Type: Article

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