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Magnetic Tweezers for the Measurement of Twist and Torque
Published on: May 19, 2014
Magnetic tweezers for the study of DNA tracking motors
Maria Manosas1, Adrien Meglio, Michelle M Spiering
1Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France.
Methods in Enzymology
|July 15, 2010
Abstract:
Single-molecule manipulation methods have opened a new vista on the study of molecular motors. Here we describe the use of magnetic traps for the investigation of the mechanism of DNA based motors, in particular helicases and translocases.

