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Perspectives
Mitochondrial biofuel cells: expanding fuel diversity to amino acids
Dushyant Bhatnagar, Shuai Xu, Caitlin Fischer, Robert L. Arechederra and Shelley D. Minteer
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01362E
Design and development of quantum dots and other nanoparticles based cellular imaging probe
Nikhil R. Jana
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00726A
Seeing the forest for the trees: fluorescence studies of single enzymes in the context of ensemble experiments
Yan-Wen Tan and Haw Yang
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02412K
Optical imaging of excited-state tautomerization in single molecules
Anna M. Chizhik, Regina Jäger, Alexey I. Chizhik, Sebastian Bär, Hans-Georg Mack, Marcus Sackrow, Catrinel Stanciu, Alexey Lyubimtsev, Michael Hanack and Alfred J. Meixner
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02228D
Physics of protein–DNA interactions: mechanisms of facilitated target search
Anatoly B. Kolomeisky
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01966F
Revealing time bunching effect in single-molecule enzyme conformational dynamics
H. Peter Lu
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02860F
Combining optical trapping, fluorescence microscopy and micro-fluidics for single molecule studies of DNA–protein interactions
Andrea Candelli, Gijs J. L. Wuite and Erwin J. G. Peterman
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02844D
Electrostatic interactions in biological DNA-related systems
A. G. Cherstvy
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02796K
Original research
Effects of all-atom force fields on amyloid oligomerization: replica exchange molecular dynamics simulations of the Aβ16–22 dimer and trimer
Phuong H. Nguyen, Mai Suan Li and Philippe Derreumaux
DOI: 10.1039/C1CP20323A
Solvent-assisted conformational isomerization and the conformationally-pure REMPI spectrum of 3-aminophenol
Woon Yong Sohn, Minho Kim, Sang-Su Kim, Young Dong Park and Hyuk Kang
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02592E
Free energy evaluation of the p53-Mdm2 complex from unbinding work measured by dynamic force spectroscopy
Anna Rita Bizzarri and Salvatore Cannistraro
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01474E
2D IR photon echo of azido-probes for biomolecular dynamics
Matthew J. Tucker, Xin Sonia Gai, Edward E. Fenlon, Scott H. Brewer and Robin M. Hochstrasser
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01625J
On the different roles of anions and cations in the solvation of enzymes in ionic liquids
Marco Klähn, Geraldine S. Lim, Abirami Seduraman and Ping Wu
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01509A
Selective transport of amino acids into the gas phase: driving forces for amino acid solubilization in gas-phase reverse micelles
Yigang Fang, Andrew Bennett and Jianbo Liu
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00823K
Extracting the underlying effective free energy landscape from single-molecule time series—local equilibrium states and their network
Akinori Baba and Tamiki Komatsuzaki
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP00694G
On the role of mercury in the non-covalent stabilisation of consecutive U–HgII–U metal-mediated nucleic acid base pairs: metallophilic attraction enters the world of nucleic acids
Ladislav Benda, Michal Straka, Yoshiyuki Tanaka and Vladimír Sychrovský
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01534B
Making gold nanoparticles fluorescent for simultaneous absorption and fluorescence detection on the single particle level
Alexander Gaiduk, Paul V. Ruijgrok, Mustafa Yorulmaz and Michel Orrit
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01389G
Photoblinking and photobleaching of rylene diimide dyes
Mathias Haase, Christian G. Hübner, Fabian Nolde, Klaus Müllen and Thomas Basché
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01814G
Single particle tracking in systems showing anomalous diffusion: the role of weak ergodicity breaking
Stas Burov, Jae-Hyung Jeon, Ralf Metzler and Eli Barkai
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01879A
Unfolding dynamics of cytochrome c revealed by single-molecule and ensemble-averaged spectroscopy
Jungkweon Choi, Sooyeon Kim, Takashi Tachikawa, Mamoru Fujitsuka and Tetsuro Majima
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02689A
Photoinduced pH drops in water
Matthieu Emond, Jing Sun, Jean Grégoire, Sylvie Maurin, Christophe Tribet and Ludovic Jullien
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02464C
Mechanisms and advancement of antifading agents for fluorescence microscopy and single-molecule spectroscopy
Thorben Cordes, Andreas Maiser, Christian Steinhauer, Lothar Schermelleh and Philip Tinnefeld
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01919D
Nanoscale chemical imaging of segregated lipid domains using tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
Lothar Opilik, Thomas Bauer, Thomas Schmid, Johannes Stadler and Renato Zenobi
DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02832K
