Monday, 28 December 2020

High-speed atomic force microscopy takes on intrinsically disordered proteins

Our understanding of biological proteins does not always correlate with how common or important they are. Half of all proteins, molecules that play an integral role in cell processes, are intrinsically disordered, which means many of the standard techniques for probing biomolecules don't work on them. Now researchers at Kanazawa University in Japan have shown that their home-grown high-speed atomic force microscopy technology can provide information not just on the structures of these proteins but also their dynamics.

source https://phys.org/news/2020-12-high-speed-atomic-microscopy-intrinsically-disordered.html