Quantitative imaging of the electrostatic field and potential generated by a transmembrane protein pore at subnanometer resolution

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5585-5593

  Pfreundschuh, Moritz ^a   Hensen, Ulf ^a   Müller, Daniel J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

electrostatic interactions; Force volume AFM; multiparametric imaging; nanopore; surface charge

Indexed keywords

AFM; ELECTROLYTE CONCENTRATION; ELECTROSTATIC PROPERTIES; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; OUTER-MEMBRANE PROTEIN F; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; SUBNANOMETER RESOLUTION; TRANS-MEMBRANE PROTEINS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; COULOMB INTERACTIONS; ELECTROSTATICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NANOPORES; SURFACE CHARGE;

PROTEINS;

ION; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN F; PORIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

IONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PORINS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84887849212     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl403232z     Document Type: Article

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