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Force Spectroscopy of Single Protein Molecules Using an Atomic Force Microscope
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Imaging and quantifying chemical and physical properties of native proteins at molecular resolution by force-volume
Izhar Medalsy1, Ulf Hensen, Daniel J Muller
1ETH Zürich, Dept of Biosystems Science and Engineering, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|October 19, 2011
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