Engineered CRISPR-Cas systems for the detection and control of antibiotic-resistant infections

Y Wu, D Battalapalli, MJ Hakeem, V Selamneni… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Antibiotic resistance is spreading rapidly around the world and seriously impeding efforts to
control microbial infections. Although nucleic acid testing is widely deployed for the …

DNA in nanochannels: theory and applications

K Frykholm, V Müller, KK Sriram… - Quarterly Reviews of …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Nanofluidic structures have over the last two decades emerged as a powerful platform for
detailed analysis of DNA on the kilobase pair length scale. When DNA is confined to a …

Optical DNA mapping in nanofluidic devices: principles and applications

V Müller, F Westerlund - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Optical DNA mapping has over the last decade emerged as a very powerful tool for
obtaining long range sequence information from single DNA molecules. In optical DNA …

Single-molecule optical genome mapping in nanochannels: multidisciplinarity at the nanoscale

J Jeffet, S Margalit, Y Michaeli… - Essays in …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
The human genome contains multiple layers of information that extend beyond the genetic
sequence. In fact, identical genetics do not necessarily yield identical phenotypes as evident …

Molecular Epidemiology of OXA-48 and NDM-1 Producing Enterobacterales Species at a University Hospital in Tehran, Iran, Between 2015 and 2016

H Solgi, S Nematzadeh, CG Giske, F Badmasti… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) is an increasing problem worldwide. Here,
we examined the clonal relatedness of 71 non-repetitive CRE isolates collected in a …

Direct identification of antibiotic resistance genes on single plasmid molecules using CRISPR/Cas9 in combination with optical DNA mapping

V Müller, F Rajer, K Frykholm, LK Nyberg, S Quaderi… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Bacterial plasmids are extensively involved in the rapid global spread of antibiotic
resistance. We here present an assay, based on optical DNA mapping of single plasmids in …

Bacteriophage strain typing by rapid single molecule analysis

A Grunwald, M Dahan, A Giesbertz… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Rapid characterization of unknown biological samples is under the focus of many current
studies. Here we report a method for screening of biological samples by optical mapping of …

Phosphorylated CtIP bridges DNA to promote annealing of broken ends

R Öz, SM Howard, R Sharma… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The early steps of DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair in human cells involve the MRE11-
RAD50-NBS1 (MRN) complex and its cofactor, phosphorylated CtIP. The roles of these …

Long-read single-molecule maps of the functional methylome

H Sharim, A Grunwald, T Gabrieli, Y Michaeli… - Genome …, 2019 - genome.cshlp.org
We report on the development of a methylation analysis workflow for optical detection of
fluorescent methylation profiles along chromosomal DNA molecules. In combination with …

Optofluidic systems enabling detection in real samples: A review

I Fernandez-Cuesta, A Llobera, M Ramos-Payán - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Optofluidics, understood as the synergistic combination between microfluidics and
photonics, has been at the forefront of the scientific research due to its outmatching …