Scanning probe microscopy

K Bian, C Gerber, AJ Heinrich, DJ Müller… - Nature Reviews …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Scanning probe microscopy (SPM), a key invention in nanoscience, has by now been
extended to a wide spectrum of basic and applied fields. Its application to basic science led …

Modeling and control of piezo-actuated nanopositioning stages: A survey

GY Gu, LM Zhu, CY Su, H Ding… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Piezo-actuated stages have become more and more promising in nanopositioning
applications due to the excellent advantages of the fast response time, large mechanical …

Cohesin mediates DNA loop extrusion by a “swing and clamp” mechanism

BW Bauer, IF Davidson, D Canena, G Wutz, W Tang… - Cell, 2021‏ - cell.com
Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) complexes organize genome topology in all
kingdoms of life and have been proposed to perform this function by DNA loop extrusion …

Structure of the mitochondrial import gate reveals distinct preprotein paths

Y Araiso, A Tsutsumi, J Qiu, K Imai, T Shiota, J Song… - Nature, 2019‏ - nature.com
The translocase of the outer mitochondrial membrane (TOM) is the main entry gate for
proteins,,–. Here we use cryo-electron microscopy to report the structure of the yeast TOM …

Visualizing the membrane disruption action of antimicrobial peptides by cryo-electron tomography

EHL Chen, CH Wang, YT Liao, FY Chan… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The abuse of antibiotics has led to the emergence of multidrug-resistant microbial
pathogens, presenting a pressing challenge in global healthcare. Membrane-disrupting …

[HTML][HTML] The mitochondrial intermembrane space protein mitofissin drives mitochondrial fission required for mitophagy

T Fukuda, K Furukawa, T Maruyama, S Yamashita… - Molecular cell, 2023‏ - cell.com
Mitophagy plays an important role in mitochondrial homeostasis by selective degradation of
mitochondria. During mitophagy, mitochondria should be fragmented to allow engulfment …

Real-space and real-time dynamics of CRISPR-Cas9 visualized by high-speed atomic force microscopy

M Shibata, H Nishimasu, N Kodera, S Hirano… - Nature …, 2017‏ - nature.com
The CRISPR-associated endonuclease Cas9 binds to a guide RNA and cleaves double-
stranded DNA with a sequence complementary to the RNA guide. The Cas9–RNA system …

High-speed atomic force microscopy reveals structural dynamics of amyloid β1–42 aggregates

T Watanabe-Nakayama, K Ono, M Itami… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
Aggregation of amyloidogenic proteins into insoluble amyloid fibrils is implicated in various
neurodegenerative diseases. This process involves protein assembly into oligomeric …

[HTML][HTML] The intrinsically disordered protein Atg13 mediates supramolecular assembly of autophagy initiation complexes

H Yamamoto, Y Fujioka, SW Suzuki, D Noshiro… - Developmental Cell, 2016‏ - cell.com
Autophagosome formation in yeast entails starvation-induced assembly of the pre-
autophagosomal structure (PAS), in which multiple Atg1 complexes (composed of Atg1 …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging critical roles of Fe–S clusters in DNA replication and repair

JO Fuss, CL Tsai, JP Ishida, JA Tainer - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Fe–S clusters are partners in the origin of life that predate cells, acetyl-CoA metabolism,
DNA, and the RNA world. The double helix solved the mystery of DNA replication by base …