Mechanical properties of human tumour tissues and their implications for cancer development

A Massey, J Stewart, C Smith, C Parvini… - Nature Reviews …, 2024‏ - nature.com
The mechanical properties of cells and tissues help determine their architecture,
composition and function. Alterations to these properties are associated with many diseases …

Single-molecule studies of protein folding with optical tweezers

C Bustamante, L Alexander, K Maciuba… - Annual review of …, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
Manipulation of individual molecules with optical tweezers provides a powerful means of
interrogating the structure and folding of proteins. Mechanical force is not only a relevant …

Enhanced statistical sampling reveals microscopic complexity in the talin mechanosensor folding energy landscape

R Tapia-Rojo, M Mora, S Board, J Walker… - Nature physics, 2023‏ - nature.com
Statistical mechanics can describe the major conformational ensembles determining the
equilibrium free-energy landscape of a folding protein. The challenge is to capture the full …

Probing the structural dynamics of proteins and nucleic acids with optical tweezers

DB Ritchie, MT Woodside - Current opinion in structural biology, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Optical tweezers provide a sensitive tool to probe structural dynamics.•Native and
non-native folding can be characterized in detail.•Effects of intermolecular interactions on …

Bio-molecular applications of recent developments in optical tweezers

D Choudhary, A Mossa, M Jadhav, C Cecconi - Biomolecules, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
In the past three decades, the ability to optically manipulate biomolecules has spurred a new
era of medical and biophysical research. Optical tweezers (OT) have enabled experimenters …

Optical manipulation: advances for biophotonics in the 21st century

S Corsetti, K Dholakia - Journal of Biomedical Optics, 2021‏ - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance: Optical trap** is a technique capable of applying minute forces that has
been applied to studies spanning single molecules up to microorganisms. Aim: The goal of …

Protein misfolding occurs by slow diffusion across multiple barriers in a rough energy landscape

H Yu, DR Dee, X Liu, AM Brigley, I Sosova… - Proceedings of the …, 2015‏ - pnas.org
The timescale for the microscopic dynamics of proteins during conformational transitions is
set by the intrachain diffusion coefficient, D. Despite the central role of protein misfolding and …

Optical tweezers in single-molecule experiments

A Zaltron, M Merano, G Mistura, C Sada… - The European Physical …, 2020‏ - epjplus.epj.org
In the last decades, optical tweezers have progressively emerged as a unique tool to
investigate the biophysical world, allowing to manipulate and control forces and movements …

Optical tweezers exploring neuroscience

ICD Lenton, EK Scott, H Rubinsztein-Dunlop… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Over the past decade, optical tweezers (OT) have been increasingly used in neuroscience
for studies of molecules and neuronal dynamics, as well as for the study of model organisms …

[HTML][HTML] NCS-1 is a regulator of calcium signaling in health and disease

GR Boeckel, BE Ehrlich - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Neuronal Calcium Sensor-1 (NCS-1) is a highly conserved calcium binding protein
which contributes to the maintenance of intracellular calcium homeostasis and regulation of …