STED nanoscopy combined with optical tweezers reveals protein dynamics on densely covered DNA

Nature Methods

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 910-916

  Heller, Iddo ^a   Sitters, Gerrit ^a   Broekmans, Onno D ^a   Farge, Géraldine ^a   Menges, Carolin ^b   Wende, Wolfgang ^b   Hell, Stefan W ^c   Peterman, Erwin J G ^a   Wuite, Gijs J L ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION NANOSCOPY;

DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEOPROTEINS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

EID: 84883462391     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2599     Document Type: Article

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