Department of Physics and Bio-AFM Frontier Research Center, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan. tando@staff.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2012Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) of proteins are very thin and hence hard to be visualized by electron microscopy. Thus far, only high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) can visualize them. The molecular movies identify the alignment of IDRs and ordered regions in an intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) and show undulation motion of the IDRs. The visualized tail-like structures contain the information of mechanical properties of the IDRs. Here, we describe methods of HS-AFM visualization of IDPs and methods of analyzing the obtained images to characterize IDRs.
Toshio Ando, Noriyuki Kodera. Visualization of mobility by atomic force microscopy. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2012;896:57-69
PMID: 22821517
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