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ArticleFrontiers in molecular biosciences2021

Determining Trap Compliances, Microsphere Size Variations, and Response Linearities in Single DNA Molecule Elasticity Measurements with Optical Tweezers.

Youbin Mo, Mounir Fizari, Kristina Koharchik, Douglas E Smith

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Youbin MoDepartment of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States.
Mounir FizariDepartment of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States.
Kristina KoharchikDepartment of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States.
Douglas E SmithDepartment of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States.

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Abstract

We previously introduced the use of DNA molecules for calibration of biophysical force and displacement measurements with optical tweezers. Force and length scale factors can be determined from measurements of DNA stretching. Trap compliance can be determined by fitting the data to a nonlinear DNA elasticity model, however, noise/drift/offsets in the measurement can affect the reliability of this determination. Here we demonstrate a more robust method that uses a linear approximation for DNA elasticity applied to high force range (25-45 pN) data. We show that this method can be used to assess how small variations in microsphere sizes affect DNA length measurements and demonstrate methods for correcting for these errors. We further show that these measurements can be used to check assumed linearities of system responses. Finally, we demonstrate methods combining microsphere imaging and DNA stretching to check the compliance and positioning of individual traps.

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calibrationDNA elasticityforcelaser tweezersmicrosphere sizeoptical trapsingle-moleculetrap stiffness

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