Photo-regulated trajectories of gliding microtubules conjugated with DNA.

Chemical Communications : Chem Comm
Mousumi AkterAkira Kakugo

Abstract

We regulate the persistency in motion of kinesin-driven microtubules (MTs) simply using a photoresponsive DNA (pDNA) and ultraviolet (UV)-visible light. The path persistence length of MTs, which is a measure of the persistency in their motion, increases and decreases upon illuminating the MTs with UV and visible light respectively. Moreover, pDNA is found to work as a shield for MTs against damage under UV irradiation.

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