Courtesy of Prof. Noriyuki Kodera, nanoLSI, Kanazawa University, Japan we could upload two new images and a very nice High Speed Atomic Force Microscopy (HS-AFM) video of Actin filaments on Mica with APTES to the image gallery and the video gallery on https://www.highspeedscanning.com/.
NanoWorld USC-F1.2-k0.15 Ultra-Short AFM cantilevers [C = 0.15 N/m; fo = 1200 kHz] were used for the high speed imaging.
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Membrane proteins (MPs) reside in the plasma membrane and perform various biological processes including ion transport, substrate transport, and signal transduction.*
Function-related conformational changes in membrane proteins occur in times scales ranging from nanoseconds to seconds.*
Obtaining time-resolved dynamic information of MPs in their membrane environment is still a major challenge.*
Although High Speed Atomic Force Microscopy (HS-AFM) images label-free samples such as DNA, soluble proteins, MPs, and intrinsically disordered proteins at ~1n~m lateral, ~0.1 nm vertical and ~100 ms temporal solution in aqueous environment and at ambient temperature and pressure, its temporal resolution is too slow to characterize many dynamic biological processes.*
In order to overcome this limitation Raghavendar Reddy Sanganna Gari, Joel José Montalvo-Acosta, George R. Heath, Yining Jiang, Xiaolong Gao, Crina M. Nimigean, Christophe Chipot and Simon Scheuring in their article Correlation of membrane protein conformational and functional dynamics use High Speed Atomic Force Microscopy Height Spectroscopy ( HS-AFM-HS) to characterize the microsecond timescale conformational changes of an integral-MP model system, i.e., the outer membrane protein G (OmpG) in a membrane environment.*
The positioning of the AFM tip is guided by HS-AFM imaging immediately before HS-AFM-HS-operation.*
NanoWorld Ultra-Short Cantilevers (USC) of the USC-F1.2-k0.15 type were used for the HS-AFM and HS-AFM-HS presented in the article.*
*Raghavendar Reddy Sanganna Gari, Joel José Montalvo-Acosta, George R. Heath, Yining Jiang, Xiaolong Gao, Crina M. Nimigean, Christophe Chipot and Simon Scheuring Correlation of membrane protein conformational and functional dynamics Nature Communications volume 12, Article number: 4363 (2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24660-1
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