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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2024

Nuclease-Resistant L-DNA Tension Probes Enable Long-Term Force Mapping of Single Cells and Cell Consortia.

Soumya Sethi, Tao Xu, Aritra Sarkar, Christoph Drees, Claire Jacob, Andreas Walther

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Traction Force Microscopy with DNA FluoroCubes.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2026
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  5. Decoy DNA Protects Molecular Tension Probes from DNase Degradation.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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6 authors.

Soumya SethiLife-like Materials and Systems, Department of Chemistry, University of Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, 55128, Mainz, Germany.
Tao XuLife-like Materials and Systems, Department of Chemistry, University of Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, 55128, Mainz, Germany.
Aritra SarkarLife-like Materials and Systems, Department of Chemistry, University of Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, 55128, Mainz, Germany.
Christoph DreesLife-like Materials and Systems, Department of Chemistry, University of Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, 55128, Mainz, Germany.
Claire JacobDepartment of Biology, University of Mainz, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 15, 55128, Mainz, Germany.
Andreas WaltherLife-like Materials and Systems, Department of Chemistry, University of Mainz, Duesbergweg 10-14, 55128, Mainz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2170-3306

Funding

Alexander von Humboldt-StiftungCoM2Life start-up funds of JGUDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 497845157Gutenberg Research CollegeH2020 European Research Council M3ALI: 101001638Max Planck FellowshipMax Planck Graduate Center
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA-based tension probes with precisely programmable force responses provide important insights into cellular mechanosensing. However, their degradability in cell culture limits their use for long-term imaging, for instance, when cells migrate, divide, and differentiate. This is a critical limitation for providing insights into mechanobiology for these longer-term processes. Here, we present DNA-based tension probes that are entirely designed based on the stereoisomer of biological D-DNA, i.e., L-DNA. We demonstrate that L-DNA tension probes are essentially indestructible by nucleases and provide days-long imaging without significant loss in image quality. We also show their superiority already for short imaging times commonly used for classical D-DNA tension probes. We showcase the potential of these resilient probes to image minute movements, and for generating long term force maps of single cells and of collectively migrating cell populations.

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DNASingle-Cell AnalysisDNA ProbesEndonucleasesHumansDNADNA ProbesEndonucleasesDNA force probesDNA nanotechnologyEnantiomerL-DNAMechanobiology

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PMID39212256
PMCPMC11610648

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