@article { ISI:000326550800042,
	title = {Ultrafast folding kinetics and cooperativity of villin headpiece in single-molecule force spectroscopy},
	journal = {PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA},
	volume = {110},
	number = {45},
	year = {2013},
	month = {NOV 5},
	pages = {18156-18161},
	abstract = {In this study we expand the accessible dynamic range of single-molecule force spectroscopy by optical tweezers to the microsecond range by fast sampling. We are able to investigate a single molecule for up to 15 min and with 300-kHz bandwidth as the protein undergoes tens of millions of folding/unfolding transitions. Using equilibrium analysis and autocorrelation analysis of the time traces, the full energetics as well as real-time kinetics of the ultrafast folding of villin headpiece 35 and a stable asparagine 68 alanine/lysine 70 methionine variant can be measured directly. We also performed Brownian dynamics simulations of the response of the bead-DNA system to protein-folding fluctuations. All key features of the force-dependent deflection fluctuations could be reproduced: SD, skewness, and autocorrelation function. Our measurements reveal a difference in folding pathway and cooperativity between wild-type and stable variant of headpiece 35. Autocorrelation force spectroscopy pushes the time resolution of single-molecule force spectroscopy to similar to 10 mu s thus approaching the timescales accessible for all atom molecular dynamics simulations.},
	issn = {0027-8424},
	doi = {10.1073/pnas.1311495110},
	author = {Zoldak, Gabriel and Stigler, Johannes and Pelz, Benjamin and Li, Hongbin and Rief, Matthias}
}
