화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.135, No.49, 18260-18263, 2013
An Optical Trap Combined with Three-Color FRET
We developed a hybrid technique combining optical tweezers and single-molecule three-color fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). In demonstrative experiments, we observed the force-sensitive correlated motion of three helical arms of a Holliday junction and identified the independent unfolding/folding dynamics of two DNA hairpins of the same length. With 3 times the number of observable elements of single-molecule FRET, this new instrument will enable the measurement of the complex, multidimensional effects of mechanical forces in various biomolecular systems, such as RNA and proteins.