Single-molecule studies of RNA polymerase: motoring along. Herbert, Greenleaf, Block. Annual Review of Biochemistry (2008).
   
Applied Force Reveals Mechanisticand Energetic Details of Transcription Termination. Larson, Greenleaf, Landick, Block. Cell (2008). Click here for Cell Commentary.
   
Direct Observation of Hierarchical Folding in Single Riboswitch Aptamers. Greenleaf, Frieda, Foster, Woodside, Block. Science (2008).
   
Precision steering of an optical trap by electro-optic deflection. Valentine, Guydosh, Gutiérrez-Medina, Fehr, Andreasson, Block. Optics Letters (2008).
   
Kinesin Steps Do Not Alternate in Size. Fehr, Asbury, Block. Biophysical Journal: Biophysical Letters (2007).
   
Binding, Stepping, Tracking, Gating, and Limping. Block. Biophysical Journal (2007).
   
Not So Lame After All: Kinesin Still Walks with a Hobbled Head. Guydosh, Block. JGP (2007).
   
Molecule by molecule, the physics and chemistry of life: SMB2007. Block, Larson, Greenleaf, Herbert, Guydosh, Anthony. Nature Chemical Biology (2007).
   
High-Resolution, Single-Molecule Measurements of Biomolecular Motion. Greenleaf, Woodside, Block. Annual Review of Biophysics Biomolecular Structure (2007).
   
Eg5 steps it up! Valentine, Fordyce, and Block. Cell Division (2006).
   
Direct measurement of the full, sequence-dependent folding landscape of a nucleic acid. Woodside, Anthony, Behnke-Parks, Larizadeh, Herschlag, and Block. Science (2006). Click here for Supplemental Materials.
   
Single-molecule, motion-based DNA sequencing using RNA polymerase. Greenleaf and Block. Science (2006). Click here for Supplemental Materials.
   
Pulling on the nascent RNA during transcription does not alter kinetics of elongation or ubiquitous pausing. Dalal, Larson, Neuman, Gelles, Landick, and Block. Molecular Cell (2006). Click here for Supplemental Materials.
   
Sequence-resolved detection of pausing by single RNA polymerase molecules. Herbert, La Porta, Wong, Mooney, Neuman, Landick and Block. Cell (2006). Click here for Supplemental Materials. Click here for Cell Commentary. Click here for the Stanford Report article.
   
Backsteps induced by nucelotide analogs suggest the front head of kinesin is gated by strain. Guydosh and Block. PNAS (2006). Click here for Supplemental Materials.
   
Nanomechanical measurements of the sequence-dependent folding landscapes of single nucleic acid hairpins. Woodside, Behnke-Parks, Larizadeh, Travers, Herschlag, and Block. PNAS (2006). Click here for Supplemental Materials.
   

Individual dimers of the mitotic kinesin motor Eg5 step processively and support substantial loads in vitro. Valentine, Fordyce, Krzysiak, Gilbert and Block. Nature Cell Biology (2006). Click here for Supplemental Materials.

 
   
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