La disección de una sola molécula de fuerzas de apilamiento en el ADN

Fabian Kilchherr1, Christian Wachauf1, Benjamin Pelz2

  • 1Labor für Biomolekulare Nanotechnologie, Physik Department and Walter Schottky Institute, Technische Universität München, Am Coulombwall 4a, Garching near Munich, Germany.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 10, 2016
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores midieron con precisión las fuerzas de apilamiento de pares de bases de ADN y las vidas de todas las secuencias. Este trabajo avanza en la comprensión de la mecánica del ADN y ayuda en el diseño de dispositivos a nanoescala basados en ADN.

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