Single-molecule techniques : a laboratory manual / edited by Paul R. Selvin, Taekjip Ha.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The new era of biology in singulo / T. Ha and P.R. Selvin -- Single-molecule FRET with total internal reflection microscopy / C. Joo and T. Ha -- In vitro and in vivo FIONA and other acronyms for watching molecular motors walk / P.R. Selvin, T. Lougheed, M.T. Hoffman, H. Park, H. Balci, B.H. Blehm, and E. Toprak -- Colocalization of fluorescent probes: Accurate and precise registration with nanometer resolution / L.S. Churchman and J.A. Spudich -- Alternating-laser excitation of single molecules / A.N. Kapanidis, M. Heilemann, E. Margeat, X. Kong, E. Nir, and S. Weiss -- Orientation and rotational motions of single molecules by polarized total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy / J.F. Beausang, Y. Sun, M.E. Quinlan, J.N. Forkey, and Y.E. Goldman -- Imaging gene expression in living cells at the single-molecule level / J. Xiao, J. Elf, G.-W. Li, J. Yu, and X.S. Xie -- Single-virus tracking in live cells / M.J. Rust, M. Lakadamyali, B. Brandenburg, and X. Zhuang -- Ultrasensitive imaging in live cells using fluorescent quantum dots / S. Courty and M. Dahan -- Imaging real-time gene expression in living systems / A.L. Wells, J.S. Condeelis, R.H. Singer, and D. Zenklusen -- Single-molecule imaging of stochastic signaling events in living cells / S. Matsuoka, Y. Miyanaga, T. Yanagida, and M. Ueda -- Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy in vitro and in vivo / E. Haustein and P. Schwille -- Optical traps to study properties of molecular motors / J.A. Spudich, S.E. Rice, R.S. Rock, T.J. Purcell, and H.M. Warrick -- High-resolution dual-trap optical tweezers with differential detection / C. Bustamante, Y.R. Chemla, and J.R. Moffitt -- Imaging and nanomanipulation of an actomyosin motor / S. Nishikawa, T. Komori, T. Ariga, T. Okada, M. Morimatsu, Y. Ishii, and T. Yanagida -- Single-molecule studies using magnetic traps / T. Lionnet, J.-F. Allemand, A. Revyakin, T.R. Strick, O.A. Saleh, D. Bensimon, and V. Croquette -- Probing polysaccharide and protein mechanics by atomic force microscopy / M. Rabbi and P.E. Marszalek -- Single-molecule analysis of nucleic acids and DNA-protein interactions using nanopores / M. Wanunu and A. Meller -- Single-molecule gold-nanoparticle tracking with high temporal and spatial resolution and without an applied load / A.R. Dunn and J. A. Spudich -- Advances in surface-based assays for single molecules / P.M. Fordyce, M.T. Valentine, and S.M. Block -- Hydrodynamic flow-stretching assay for single-molecule studies of nucleic acid-protein interactions / C.M. Schroeder, P.C. Blainey, S. Kim, and X.S. Xie.