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q-bio.BM2007★ 170 cited
Structural plasticity of single chromatin fibers revealed by torsional manipulation
Aurelien Bancaud, Natalia Conde e Silva, Maria Barbi +8
Magnetic tweezers are used to study the mechanical response under torsion of single nucleosome arrays reconstituted on tandem repeats of 5S positioning sequences. Regular arrays ar…
q-bio.BM2006★ 165 cited
Wringing out DNA
Timothee Lionnet, Sylvain Joubaud, Richard Lavery +2
The chiral nature of DNA plays a crucial role in cellular processes. Here we use magnetic tweezers to explore one of the signatures of this chirality, the coupling between stretch…