Ångström-precision optical traps and applications*

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 279-302

  Perkins, Thomas T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA; Molecular motor; Optical tweezers; RNA polymerase; Single molecule force spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA POLYMERASE; HELICASE; MOLECULAR MOTOR; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE; BIOASSAY; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); ELASTICITY; FORCE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

DNA; MOLECULAR MOTOR; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; RNA POLYMERASE; SINGLE-MOLECULE FORCE SPECTROSCOPY;

DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; MOTION; MOVEMENT; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

EID: 84901987376     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: 19361238     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-042910-155223     Document Type: Article

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