Recent Advances in Biological Single-Molecule Applications of Optical Tweezers and Fluorescence Microscopy

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 582, Issue , 2017, Pages 85-119

  Hashemi Shabestari, M ^a   Meijering, A E C ^a   Roos, W H ^b   Wuite, G J L ^a   Peterman, E J G ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Commercial solutions; DNA protein interaction; Fluorescence microscopy; Mechanochemistry; Microfluidics; Molecular motors; Optical tweezers; Quadruple optical traps; Single molecule; STED super resolution microscopy

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DNA; DNA HELICASE; DNA LIGASE; ENZYME; INTERCALATING AGENT; LIPID; MOLECULAR MOTOR; PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; BIOLOGY; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; CELL MOTILITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DUAL TRAP OPTICAL TWEEZER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MEMBRANE FUSION; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SINGLE OPTICAL TWEEZER; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SINGLE MOLECULE IMAGING; TRENDS;

DNA; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PROTEINS; SINGLE MOLECULE IMAGING;

EID: 85008349796     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: 15577988     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.mie.2016.09.047     Document Type: Chapter

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