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Molecular Stick-Slip Motion Revealed by Opening DNA with Piconewton Forces
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We have pulled apart the two strands of a DNA double helix. The forces measured during this process show a sequence specific variation on the piconewton scale. Opening two helical molecules with the same sequence from opposite sides gives two signatures which are not simply related by symmetry. In a theoretical model, this is explained as a molecular stick-slip motion which does not involve instabilities and is determined by the sequence.
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- Authors
- Bockelmann, U., Essevaz-Roulet, B., & Heslot, F.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1997-12-01
- Volume
- 79
- Issue
- 22
- Pages
- 4489-4492
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
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- W1970690847
- Cited by
- 224
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 7.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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