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ArticleBiophysical journal2014

Determining intrachain diffusion coefficients for biopolymer dynamics from single-molecule force spectroscopy measurements.

Michael T Woodside, John Lambert, Kevin S D Beach

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Modulation of a protein-folding landscape revealed by AFM-based force spectroscopy notwithstanding instrumental limitations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  3. Measuring the average shape of transition paths during the folding of a single biological molecule.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  6. Transition paths in single-molecule force spectroscopy.The Journal of chemical physics · 2018
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  8. Direct measurement of sequence-dependent transition path times and conformational diffusion in DNA duplex formation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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  14. On artifacts in single-molecule force spectroscopy.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
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  16. Protein misfolding occurs by slow diffusion across multiple barriers in a rough energy landscape.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
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  18. Reconstructing folding energy landscapes from splitting probability analysis of single-molecule trajectories.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michael T WoodsideDepartment of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2E1 Canada; National Institute for Nanotechnology, National Research Council, Edmonton AB, T6G 2M9 Canada. Electronic address: michael.woodside@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca.
John LambertDepartment of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2E1 Canada.
Kevin S D BeachDepartment of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2E1 Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The conformational diffusion coefficient for intrachain motions in biopolymers, D, sets the timescale for structural dynamics. Recently, force spectroscopy has been applied to determine D both for unfolded proteins and for the folding transitions in proteins and nucleic acids. However, interpretation of the results remains unsettled. We investigated how instrumental effects arising from the force probes used in the measurement can affect the value of D recovered via force spectroscopy. We compared estimates of D for the folding of DNA hairpins found from measurements of rates and energy landscapes made using optical tweezers with estimates obtained from the same single-molecule trajectories via the transition path time. The apparent D obtained from the rates was much lower than the result found from the same data using transition time analysis, reflecting the effects of the mechanical properties of the force probe. Deconvolution of the finite compliance effects on the measurement allowed the intrinsic value to be recovered. These results were supported by Brownian dynamics simulations of the effects of force-probe compliance and bead size.

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Spectrum AnalysisDiffusionDNAInverted Repeat SequencesKineticsModels, MolecularNucleic Acid ConformationDNA

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PMID25296317
PMCPMC4190644

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