Recent advances in optical tweezers.

By Jeffrey R. Moffitt, Y. Chemla, Steven B. Smith, C. Bustamante. Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2008

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics

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What spatial light modulators can do for optical microscopy (2011, methodology): “Like generalized phase contrast [14], these systems have been developed to dynamically shape traps for optical micromanipulation [15–20].”
Stochastic mechano-chemical kinetics of molecular motors: A multidisciplinary enterprise from a physicist’s perspective (2012, background): “Several elementary introductions to the basic principles of optical tweezers and their design are available; we mention here only a few of those which are presented in the context of molecular machines [2165, 2166, 2167, 2168, 2169, 2170, 2171].”
High-resolution atomic force microscopy and spectroscopy of native membrane proteins (2011, background): “Over the years it has been increasingly recognized that forces acting between and within membrane proteins play a pivotal role in cell adhesion [57], molecular recognition [24, 58–60], signal transduction [61], mechanotransduction [62–64], motor protein movement [65] and protein folding and stabilit”
Optical macro-tweezers: trapping of highly motile micro-organisms (2011, background): “DNA strands [6], down to ultracold atoms and Bose–”
Microfluidic bio-particle manipulation for biotechnology (2014, background): “Some of the significant achievements using optical traps are studying molecular motors with subnanometer resolution [52], fundamental properties of colloids and interface science [53], mechanical properties of living cells [54], and polymer elasticity [55].”
Biomolecules under mechanical force (2010, background): “Several surveys are only focused on specific problems like the free energy landscape (FEL) of biomolecules [8], the protein mechanical stability [9], experimental aspects of refolding under quenched force [10], advances in optical tweezers [11] etc.”
Polymers with spatial or topological constraints: Theoretical and computational results (2011, background): “On one hand, this problem is motivated by the advent of novel experiments based on micro- and nano-fluidic devices, or on micromanipulation tools such as AFM [66, 67] and optical tweezers [68].”
Multiple optical trapping and binding: new routes to self-assembly (2010, background): “In combination with a precise measurement of particle position, most frequently provided by a quadrant photodiode [66, 15], the geometry of optical tweezers with AOD-based timesharing has become a frequently used basis for studies in molecular or cell biology.”
The Major Architects of Chromatin: Architectural Proteins in Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryotes (2008, background): “On the other hand, the powerful reductionist single-molecule approaches currently available (Dame, 2008; Moffitt et al., 2008; van Mameren et al., 2008), could be more widely adopted to study eukaryotic chromatin and the processes that shape and reshape it.”