Nano-structuring for molecular motor controlShow others and affiliations
2015 (English)In: Nano-Structures for Optics and Photonics: Optical Strategies for Enhancing Sensing, Imaging, Communication and Energy Conversion / [ed] Baldassare Di Bartolo, John Collins, Luciano Silvestri, Springer, 2015, p. 459-459Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
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Abstract [en]
The interaction of self-propelled biological molecular-motors and cytoskeletal filaments holds relevance for a variety of applications such as biosensing, drug screening, diagnostics and biocomputation. The use of these systems for lab-on-a-chip biotechnology applications shows potential for replacement of microfluidic flow by active, molecular-motor driven transport of filaments. The ability to control, confine and detect motile objects in such a system is possible by development of nanostructured surfaces for on-chip applications and fundamental studies of molecular-motors. Here we describe the localized detection (Lard et al., Sci Rep 3:1092, 2013) and fast transport of actin filaments by myosin molecular-motors (Lard et al., Biosens Biolectron 48(0):145–152, 2013), inserted within nanostructures, as a method for biocomputation and molecular concentration. These results include extensive myosin driven concentration of actin filaments on a miniaturized detector, of relevance for use of molecular-motors in a diagnostics platform. Also, we discuss the local enhancement of the fluorescence signal of filaments, relevant for use in a biocomputation device where tracking of potentially thousands of motile objects is of primary significance.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2015. p. 459-459
Series
NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics, ISSN 1874-6500
National Category
Nano Technology Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Research subject
Natural Science, Chemistry
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-55335DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9133-5_28Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84943311770OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-55335DiVA, id: diva2:951964
Conference
NATO Advanced Study Institute on Nano-Structures for Optics and Photonics: Optical Strategies for Enhancing, Sensing, Imaging, Communication, and Energy Conversion. Erice, Sicily, Italy, 4–19 July 2013
2016-08-112016-08-102017-04-21Bibliographically approved