Gold rotor bead tracking for high-speed measurements of DNA twist, torque and extension

Nature Methods

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 456-462

  Lebel, Paul ^a,b   Basu, Aakash ^a,b,e   Oberstrass, Florian C ^b   Tretter, Elsa M ^c,f   Bryant, Zev ^b,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Nurix Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); DNA Z; GOLD; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK FIELD MICROSCOPY; DNA HELIX; DNA SEQUENCE; HIGH RESOLUTION TORQUE SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTOR BEAD TRACKING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY;

DNA; DNA GYRASE; GOLD; MAGNETICS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; TORQUE;

EID: 84897954099     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2854     Document Type: Article

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