Nanoscale stiffness topography reveals structure and mechanics of the transport barrier in intact nuclear pore complexes

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 60-64

  Bestembayeva, Aizhan ^a   Kramer, Armin ^a,b   Labokha, Aksana A ^a,d   Osmanović, Dino ^a   Liashkovich, Ivan ^b   Orlova, Elena V ^c   Ford, Ian J ^a   Charras, Guillaume ^a   Fassati, Ariberto ^a   Hoogenboom, Bart W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MEDIMMUNE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; MOLECULES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEINS; STIFFNESS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY TIPS; CENTRAL CHANNELS; NANOMECHANICAL PROPERTY; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEXES; NUCLEAR TRANSPORT; PASSIVE DIFFUSIONS; SELECTIVE BARRIERS; TRANSPORT BARRIER;

TOPOGRAPHY;

NANOPARTICLE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; TOPOGRAPHY; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ADHESION; ADSORPTION; CHEMISTRY; FRICTION; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; NUCLEAR PORE; PROCEDURES; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ADHESIVENESS; ADSORPTION; ELASTIC MODULUS; FRICTION; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOPARTICLES; NUCLEAR PORE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84926103718     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2014.262     Document Type: Article

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