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Atomic Force Microscopy for Structural and Biophysical Investigations on Nuclear Pore Complexes
Ivan Liashkovich1, Gonzalo Rosso1, Victor Shahin2
1Institute of Physiology II, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|April 12, 2022
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Atomic force microscopy (AFM) enables simultaneous generation of topographical and biophysical maps of surfaces of biological samples at nanoresolution in physiologically relevant environments. Here, we describe the application of AFM to study nuclear pore complexes from structural and biophysical aspects.
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