Chapter title |
Optical Tweezers-Based Measurements of Forces and Dynamics at Microtubule Ends
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Chapter number | 16 |
Book title |
Optical Tweezers
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-6421-5_16 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-6419-2, 978-1-4939-6421-5
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Authors |
Marian Baclayon, Svenja-Marei Kalisch, Ed Hendel, Liedewij Laan, Julien Husson, E. Laura Munteanu, Marileen Dogterom, Baclayon, Marian, Kalisch, Svenja-Marei, Hendel, Ed, Laan, Liedewij, Husson, Julien, Munteanu, E. Laura, Dogterom, Marileen |
Abstract |
Microtubules are dynamic cytoskeletal polymers that polymerize and depolymerize while interacting with different proteins and structures within the cell. The highly regulated dynamic properties as well as the pushing and pulling forces generated by dynamic microtubule ends play important roles in processes such as in cell division. For instance, microtubule end-binding proteins are known to affect dramatically the dynamic properties of microtubules, and cortical dyneins are known to mediate pulling forces on microtubule ends. We discuss in this chapter our efforts to reconstitute these systems in vitro and mimic their interactions with structures within the cell using micro-fabricated barriers. Using an optical tweezers setup, we investigate the dynamics and forces of microtubules growing against functionalized barriers in the absence and presence of end-binding proteins and barrier-attached motor proteins. This setup allows high-speed as well as nanometer and piconewton resolution measurements on dynamic microtubules. |
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