Ultrafast cooling reveals microsecond-scale biomolecular dynamics

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Polinkovsky, Mark E ^a,c   Gambin, Yann ^b,d   Banerjee, Priya R ^b   Erickstad, Michael J ^a   Groisman, Alex ^a   Deniz, Ashok A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Stemedica Cell Technologies Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; COOLING; HEATING; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER METHOD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; COOLING; DNA HAIRPIN; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HEATING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; CHEMISTRY; COLD; CONFORMATION; DEVICES; HEAT; INVERTED REPEAT; KINETICS; LIGHT; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; TIME;

DNA;

COLD TEMPERATURE; DNA; HOT TEMPERATURE; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; KINETICS; LASERS; LIGHT; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84922756480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6737     Document Type: Article

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