Conformational transitions and stop-and-go nanopore transport of single-stranded DNA on charged graphene

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Shankla, Manish ^a   Aksimentiev, Aleksei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYMER; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; GRAPHITE;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; DNA; METHYLATION; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSFER; FORCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPORE; VELOCITY; CONFORMATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; METABOLISM; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ELECTROPHORESIS; GRAPHITE; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NANOPORES; POLYMERS;

EID: 84922209493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6171     Document Type: Article

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