Men Y, Fu Y, Chen Z, Sims PA, Greenleaf WJ, and Huang Y. (2012) "Digitial polymerase chain reaction in an array of femtoliter polydimethylsiloxane microreactors." Analytical Chemistry in press
Sims PA*, Greenleaf WJ*, Duan H, and Xie XS (2011) “Fluorogenic DNA sequencing in PDMS microreactors.” Nature Methods 8(7) 575-580
* Equal contribution
Gutierrez-Medina B, Andreasson JOL, Greenleaf WJ, La Porta A, and Block SM. (2010) “An optical apparatus for rotation and trapping.” Meth. Enzymol. 475:377-404
Greenleaf WJ*, Frieda KL, Foster, DAN, Woodside MT*, and Block SM. (2008) “Direct observation of hierarchical folding in single riboswitch aptamers.” Science, 319:630-633.
* Equal contribution
Larson MH*, Greenleaf WJ*, Landick R, and Block SM. (2008) “Applied force reveals mechanistic and energetic details of transcription termination.” Cell, 132:971-982
*Equal contribution
Greenleaf WJ, and Block SM. (2006) “Single-molecule, motion-based DNA sequencing using RNA polymerase.” Science 313:801.
Abbondanzieri EA*, Greenleaf WJ*, Shaevitz JW, Landick R, Block, SM (2005) “Direct observation of basepair stepping by RNA polymerase.” Nature. 438(7067):460-465.
Greenleaf WJ*, Woodside MT*, Abbondanzieri EA, Block SM. (2005) “Passive all-optical force clamp for high resolution laser trapping.” Phys. Rev. Lett. 95:208102.
*Equal contribution
Marszalek PE, Greenleaf WJ, Li HB, Oberhauser AF, Fernandez JM. (2000) “Atomic force microscopy captures quantized plastic deformation in gold nanowires.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.97 (12): 6282-6286.
Greenleaf WJ, Bolander ME, Sarkar G, Goldring MB, Greenleaf JF. (1998). “Artificial cavitation nuclei significantly enhance acoustically induced cell transfection.” Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. 24 (4): 587-595.
Reviews
Herbert, KM, Greenleaf WJ, and Block SM. (2008) “Single molecule measurements of RNA polymerase: motoring along.” Ann. Rev. Biochem. 77: 149-176.
Greenleaf WJ, Woodside MT, and Block SM. (2007) “High-resolution, single-molecule measurements of biomolecular motion.” Ann. Rev Biophys. Biomol. Struct. 36:171-90.