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Fringe dielectrophoresis nanoaperture optical trapping with order of magnitude speed-up for unmodified proteins
Presenter: Elham Babaei
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Date: Thu, August 10, 2023
Time: 14:00:00 - 00:00:00
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Abstract: Single molecule analysis of proteins in an aqueous environment without modification (e.g., labels or tethers) elucidates their biophysics and interactions relevant to drug discovery. By combining fringe-field dielectrophoresis with nanoaperture optical tweezers we demonstrate an order of magnitude faster time-to-trap for proteins when the counter electrode is outside of the solution. When the counter electrode is inside the solution (the more common configuration found in the literature), electrophoresis speeds up the trapping of polystyrene nanospheres, but this was not effective for proteins in general. Since time-to-trap is critical for high-thoughput analysis, these findings are a major advancement to the nanoaperture optical trapping technique for protein analysis.