Stress-Induced Structural Transitions in DNA and Proteins
- 1 June 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry
- Vol. 29 (1), 523-543
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.biophys.29.1.523
Abstract
▪ Abstract The ability to manipulate, stretch and twist biomolecules opens the way to an understanding of their structural transitions. We review some of the recently discovered stress-induced structural transitions in DNA as well as the application of single molecule manipulation techniques to DNA unzipping and to the study of protein folding/unfolding transitions.Keywords
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