 Optical Tweezers
"Optical Tweezers" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A technique that uses LASERS to trap, image, and manipulate small objects (biomolecules, supramolecular assembles, DENDRIMERS) in three dimensional space. (From Glossary of Biotechnology and Nanobiotechnology Terms, 4th ed.)
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D052898
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.650
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| Concept/Terms |
Optical Tweezers- Optical Tweezers
- Optical Tweezer
- Tweezer, Optical
- Tweezers, Optical
- Optical Trapping
- Trapping, Optical
- Laser Tweezers
- Laser Tweezer
- Tweezer, Laser
- Tweezers, Laser
- Optical Trap
- Optical Traps
- Trap, Optical
- Traps, Optical
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Optical Tweezers" by people in Profiles.
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Rawson B, Yang Q, Catalano CE, Smith DE. Single-molecule measurements of bacteriophage lambda DNA packaging using purified terminase motor proteins and E. coli integration host factor. Sci Rep. 2025 Feb 27; 15(1):7093.
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Walker ZJ, Wells T, Belliston E, Walker SB, Zeller C, Sampad MJN, Saiduzzaman SM, Schmidt H, Hawkins AR. Optofluidic Particle Manipulation: Optical Trapping in a Thin-Membrane Microchannel. Biosensors (Basel). 2022 Aug 27; 12(9).
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Taylor AMK, Okoniewski SR, Uyetake L, Perkins TT. Force-Activated DNA Substrates for In Situ Generation of ssDNA and Designed ssDNA/dsDNA Structures in an Optical-Trapping Assay. Methods Mol Biol. 2022; 2478:273-312.
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Lachaize V, Pe?a B, Ciubotaru C, Cojoc D, Chen SN, Taylor MRG, Mestroni L, Sbaizero O. Compromised Biomechanical Properties, Cell-Cell Adhesion and Nanotubes Communication in Cardiac Fibroblasts Carrying the Lamin A/C D192G Mutation. Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Aug 25; 22(17).
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Kim H, Sundaram S, Kang JH, Tanjeem N, Emrick T, Hayward RC. Coupled oscillation and spinning of photothermal particles in Marangoni optical traps. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 05 04; 118(18).
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McCauley MJ, Huo R, Becker N, Holte MN, Muthurajan UM, Rouzina I, Luger K, Maher LJ, Israeloff NE, Williams MC. Single and double box HMGB proteins differentially destabilize nucleosomes. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 01 25; 47(2):666-678.
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Walder R, Van Patten WJ, Ritchie DB, Montange RK, Miller TW, Woodside MT, Perkins TT. High-Precision Single-Molecule Characterization of the Folding of an HIV RNA Hairpin by Atomic Force Microscopy. Nano Lett. 2018 10 10; 18(10):6318-6325.
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Okoniewski SR, Carter AR, Perkins TT. A Surface-Coupled Optical Trap with 1-bp Precision via Active Stabilization. Methods Mol Biol. 2017; 1486:77-107.
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Schreiner SM, Koo PK, Zhao Y, Mochrie SG, King MC. The tethering of chromatin to the nuclear envelope supports nuclear mechanics. Nat Commun. 2015 Jun 15; 6:7159.
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Horn AE, Goodrich JA, Kugel JF. Single molecule studies of RNA polymerase II transcription in vitro. Transcription. 2014; 5(1):e27608.
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