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ReviewACS omega2020

Force Spectroscopy on Single Molecules of Life.

Soumit S Mandal

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Review in ACS omega, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Optical Monitoring ofNano letters · 2023
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  11. Force Spectroscopy in Mechanical Protein Domains Unfolding.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Soumit S MandalDepartment of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Tirupati 517507, India.
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomolecules such as nucleic acids and proteins constitute the cells and its organelles that form the crucial components in all living organisms. They are associated with a variety of cellular processes during which they undergo conformational orientations. The structural rearrangements resulting from protein-protein, protein-DNA, and protein-drug interactions vary in spatial and temporal length scales. Force is one of the important key factors which regulate these interactions. The magnitude of the force can vary from sub-piconewtons to several thousands of piconewtons. Single-molecule force spectroscopy acts as a powerful tool which is capable of investigating mechanical stability and conformational rearrangements arising in biomolecules due to the above interactions. Real-time observation of conformational dynamics including access to rare or transient states and the estimation of mean dwell times using these tools aids in the kinetic analysis of these interactions. In this review, we highlight the capabilities of common force spectroscopy techniques such as optical tweezers, magnetic tweezers, and atomic force microscopy with case studies on emerging applications.

Identifiers

PMID32478214
PMCPMC7254507
OpenAlexW3024268906

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Registered trials

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