Ten years of tension: Single-molecule DNA mechanics

Nature

Volumn 421, Issue 6921, 2003, Pages 423-427

  Bustamante, Carlos ^a   Bryant, Zev ^a   Smith, Steven B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CYTOLOGY; DNA; PROTEINS;

DOUBLE HELIX;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

CURVED DNA; HELICASE;

DNA;

DNA PACKAGING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA TEMPLATE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REVIEW;

BIOMECHANICS; DNA; DNA REPLICATION; ELASTICITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85015087906     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01405     Document Type: Review

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