Juan Carlos Cordova et al.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 1486, 317-341 (2016-11-16)
Energy-dependent protein degradation is studied through the dual bead ClpXP motility assay. Processing of folded proteins involves recognition, unfolding, translocation, and degradation stages. A dual optical trap, in a passive force-clamp geometry, exhibits bead-to-bead displacements that directly follow subprocesses underlying