Abstract:
:Atomic force microscopy (AFM) allows to study the molecular structure of biological macromolecules with nm to A resolutions without crystallization. We show here the applicability of AFM in the quantitative analysis of the molecular mechanisms of DNA/protein interaction: (i) Protein-binding sites can be mapped over a few kilobases of target DNA. (ii) Multimerization state of DNA-binding proteins can be determined simply by measuring the sizes of proteins bound to the DNA. These features are significant advantages over the capabilities provided by conventional techniques in biochemistry and molecular and structural biology.
journal_name
Biochem Biophys Res Communjournal_title
Biochemical and biophysical research communicationsauthors
Nettikadan S,Tokumasu F,Takeyasu Kdoi
10.1006/bbrc.1996.1409subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1996-09-24 00:00:00pages
645-9issue
3eissn
0006-291Xissn
1090-2104pii
S0006-291X(96)91409-6journal_volume
226pub_type
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