Recent developments of microfluidics as a tool for biotechnology and microbiology

O Scheler, W Postek, P Garstecki - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Microfluidics is transforming traditional techniques in biotechnology.•Multi-step
experiments are automated on single device in parallel reactors.•Millions of parallel …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

The HIV-1 nucleocapsid chaperone protein forms locally compacted globules on long double-stranded DNA

K Jiang, N Humbert, S KK, I Rouzina… - Nucleic Acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The nucleocapsid (NC) protein plays key roles in Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 (HIV-1)
replication, notably by condensing and protecting the viral RNA genome and by …

[HTML][HTML] Strain-level bacterial typing directly from patient samples using optical DNA mapping

M Nyblom, A Johnning, K Frykholm, M Wrande… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Background Identification of pathogens is crucial to efficiently treat and prevent bacterial
infections. However, existing diagnostic techniques are slow or have a too low resolution for …

Optical DNA mapping combined with Cas9-targeted resistance gene identification for rapid tracking of resistance plasmids in a neonatal intensive care unit outbreak

SK Bikkarolla, V Nordberg, F Rajer, V Müller, MH Kabir… - MBio, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
The global spread of antibiotic resistance among Enterobacteriaceae is largely due to
multidrug resistance plasmids that can transfer between different bacterial strains and …

Optical maps of plasmids as a proxy for clonal spread of MDR bacteria: a case study of an outbreak in a rural Ethiopian hospital

YL Lin, T Sewunet, S Kk, CG Giske… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Objectives MDR bacteria have become a prevailing health threat worldwide. We here aimed
to use optical DNA mapping (ODM) as a rapid method to trace nosocomial spread of …