Untangling reaction pathways through modern approaches to high-throughput single-molecule force-spectroscopy experiments

D Dulin, BA Berghuis, SM Depken, NH Dekker

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Abstract

Single-molecule experiments provide a unique means for real-time observation of the activity of individual biomolecular machines. Through such techniques, insights into the mechanics of for example, polymerases, helicases, and packaging motors have been gleaned. Here we describe the recent advances in single-molecule force spectroscopy instrumentation that have facilitated high-throughput acquisition at high spatiotemporal resolution. The large datasets attained by such methods can capture rare but important events, and contain information regarding stochastic behaviors covering many orders of magnitude in time. We further discuss analysis of such data sets, and with a special focus on the pause states described in the general literature on RNA polymerase pausing we compare and contrast the signatures of different reaction pathways.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)116-122
Number of pages7
JournalCurrent Opinion in Structural Biology
Volume34
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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