Nanomanipulation of Single RNA Molecules by Optical Tweezers
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Nanomanipulation of single RNA molecules by optical tweezers.
A large portion of the human genome is transcribed but not translated. In this post genomic era, regulatory functions of RNA have been shown to be increasingly important. As RNA function often depends on its ability to adopt alternative structures, it is difficult to predict RNA three-dimensional structures directly from sequence. Single-molecule approaches show potentials to solve the problem ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Visualized Experiments
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1940-087X
DOI: 10.3791/51542