DNA-Based Sensors for Single-Molecule Biology II
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 November 2022) | Viewed by 406
Special Issue Editor
Interests: single-molecule force spectroscopy; single-molecule fluorescence; DNA-based biosensors and molecular devices; mechanobiology; molecular force sensors
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Sensors will be dedicated to DNA-based molecular sensors for studying biological processes at the single-molecule level. Molecular biosensors have played a crucial role in understanding biological systems from the single-cell level to tissues and organisms. The detection of individual, single-molecule events in a single cell is necessary to gain insight into the cells’ heterogeneity, spatial distribution, noise, sensitivity, and regulation of molecular processes. Research into DNA-based molecular sensors has been exceptionally active, as a result of their “programmable” nature, in the creation of designer structural (e.g., DNA origami), function (e.g., DNAzymes), and detection/imaging (e.g., DNA-PAINT) elements.
In this Special Issue, we will feature the most recent progress in this field, from modeling and simulation studies to the development of new constructs of DNA-based sensors, as well as new experimental methods using these sensors for imaging and detection.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Cellular processes sensing (e.g., metabolite, tension, signaling);
- DNA origami and supramolecular assembly;
- Single-molecule and super-resolution imaging;
- Single-molecule force spectroscopy;
- Imaging technique and method development;
- Modeling and simulation;
- Theoretical sensing strategy.
Prof. Dr. Isaac Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- DNA/RNA/nucleic acid
- single-molecule
- imaging
- force spectroscopy
- biosensor
- super-resolution
- molecular structures
