Enhanced electrostatic force microscopy reveals higher-order DNA looping mediated by the telomeric protein TRF2

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Kaur, Parminder ^a   Wu, Dong ^a   Lin, Jiangguo ^a,b   Countryman, Preston ^a   Bradford, Kira C ^c   Erie, Dorothy A ^c,d   Riehn, Robert ^a   Opresko, Patricia L ^e   Wang, Hong ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING FACTOR 2; TERF2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROSCOPY; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

DNA; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING PROTEIN 2;

EID: 84957585065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20513     Document Type: Article

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