Kinesin Moving through the Spotlight: Single-Motor Fluorescence Microscopy with Submillisecond Time Resolution

Optical trapping

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Identification of a novel force-generating protein, kinesin, involved in microtubule-based motility

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Direct observation of kinesin stepping by optical trapping interferometry

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Thermodynamic Fluctuations in a Reacting System—Measurement by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy

Douglas Magde, Elliot Elson, W. W. Webb · Physical Review Letters · 1972 · 1.7K citations

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Probing the interaction between two single molecules: fluorescence resonance energy transfer between a single donor and a single acceptor.

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