Nanomechanical properties of α-synuclein amyloid fibrils: A comparative study by nanoindentation, harmonic force microscopy, and Peakforce QNM

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Sweers, Kim ^a   van der Werf, Kees ^a   Bennink, Martin ^a   Subramaniam, Vinod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEINS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOINDENTATION; PROTEINS; ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; ELASTIC MODULI; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATOMIC FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; LATERAL RESOLUTION; MAPPING TECHNIQUES; MECHANICAL PARAMETERS; NANOMECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS; NANOMECHANICAL PROPERTY; PARKINSON'S DISEASE; AFM; AFM IMAGING; AFM TIP; AMYLOID FIBRIL; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; FLAT SURFACES; HARMONIC FORCE; INDENTERS; PROTEIN FIBRILS; SYNUCLEIN; SYNUCLEIN PROTEINS; TAPPING MODES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

EID: 82655177891     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-270     Document Type: Article

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