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ArticleNature communications2019

Self-assembling peptides imaged by correlated liquid cell transmission electron microscopy and MALDI-imaging mass spectrometry.

Mollie A Touve, Andrea S Carlini, Nathan C Gianneschi

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Mollie A TouveDepartment of Chemistry, International Institute for Nanotechnology, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, and Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
Andrea S CarliniDepartment of Chemistry, International Institute for Nanotechnology, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, and Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
Nathan C GianneschiDepartment of Chemistry, International Institute for Nanotechnology, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, and Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA. nathan.gianneschi@northwestern.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9945-5475

Funding

MMP responsive polymeric materials for treating acute myocardial infarctionR01HL139001 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Karen L Christman, Nathan Claude Gianneschi · 2017 to 2026
$3.9M
Autonomously Assembling Nanomaterial Scaffolds for Treating Myocardial InfarctionR01HL117326 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI CHRISTMAN, KAREN L, GIANNESCHI, NATHAN CLAUDE · 2012 to 2016
$1.9M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL117326NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL139001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We describe the observation of stimuli-induced peptide-based nanoscale assemblies by liquid cell transmission electron microscopy (LCTEM). LCTEM offers the opportunity to directly image nanoscale materials in liquid. Despite broad interest in characterizing biological phenomena, electron beam-induced damage remains a significant problem. Concurrently, methods for verifying chemical structure during or following an LCTEM experiment have been few, with key examples limited to electron diffraction or elemental analysis of crystalline materials; this strategy is not translatable to biopolymers observed in nature. In this proof-of-concept study, oligomeric peptides are biologically or chemically stimulated within the liquid cell in a TEM to assemble into nanostructures. The resulting materials are analyzed by MALDI-imaging mass spectrometry (MALDI-IMS) to verify their identity. This approach confirms whether higher-order assemblies observed by LCTEM consist of intact peptides, verifying that observations made during the in situ experiment are because of those same peptides and not aberrant electron beam damage effects.

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Microscopy, Electron, TransmissionNanostructuresPeptidesProof of Concept StudySpectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-IonizationPeptides

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PMID31645558
PMCPMC6811541

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