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ArticleScientific reports2022

Lab-on-chip microscope platform for electro-manipulation of a dense microtubules network.

Daniel Havelka, Ilia Zhernov, Michal Teplan, Zdeněk Lánský, Djamel Eddine Chafai, Michal Cifra

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Daniel HavelkaInstitute of Photonics and Electronics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia. havelka@ufe.cz.
Ilia ZhernovBIOCEV, Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia.
Michal TeplanInstitute of Measurement Science of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Zdeněk LánskýBIOCEV, Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia.
Djamel Eddine ChafaiInstitute of Photonics and Electronics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia.
Michal CifraInstitute of Photonics and Electronics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia. cifra@ufe.cz.
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biotechnology · CZCzech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Photonics and Electronics · CZCzech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physiology · CZInstitute of Measurement Science of the Slovak Academy of Sciences · SK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pulsed electric field (PEF) technology is promising for the manipulation of biomolecular components and has potential applications in biomedicine and bionanotechnology. Microtubules, nanoscopic tubular structures self-assembled from protein tubulin, serve as important components in basic cellular processes as well as in engineered biomolecular nanosystems. Recent studies in cell-based models have demonstrated that PEF affects the cytoskeleton, including microtubules. However, the direct effects of PEF on microtubules are not clear. In this work, we developed a lab-on-a-chip platform integrated with a total internal reflection fluorescence microscope system to elucidate the PEF effects on a microtubules network mimicking the cell-like density of microtubules. The designed platform enables the delivery of short (microsecond-scale), high-field-strength ([Formula: see text] 25 kV/cm) electric pulses far from the electrode/electrolyte interface. We showed that microsecond PEF is capable of overcoming the non-covalent microtubule bonding force to the substrate and translocating the microtubules. This microsecond PEF effect combined with macromolecular crowding led to aggregation of microtubules. Our results expand the toolbox of bioelectronics technologies and electromagnetic tools for the manipulation of biomolecular nanoscopic systems and contribute to the understanding of microsecond PEF effects on a microtubule cytoskeleton.

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