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ArticleSmall (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2025

Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Analysis of Genomic DNA Visualized with Nanoparticle-Tagged Peptides under Electron Microscopy.

Priyannth Ramasami Sundharbaabu, Junhyuck Chang, Yunchul Kim, Youmin Shim, Byoungsang Lee, Chanyoung Noh, Sujung Heo, Seung Seo Lee, Sang-Hee Shim, Kwang-Il Lim and 2 more

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Article in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Priyannth Ramasami SundharbaabuSchool of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, South Korea.ORCID 0009-0001-0900-6359
Junhyuck ChangSchool of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-6125-4897
Yunchul KimSchool of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-7278-1411
Youmin ShimSchool of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, South Korea.ORCID 0009-0006-6900-1628
Byoungsang LeeSchool of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-9105-7085
Chanyoung NohDepartment of Chemistry & Interdisciplinary Program of Integrated Biotechnology, Sogang University, Seoul, 04107, South Korea.ORCID 0009-0000-8251-8249
Sujung HeoDepartment of Chemistry & Interdisciplinary Program of Integrated Biotechnology, Sogang University, Seoul, 04107, South Korea.
Seung Seo LeeSchool of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8598-3303
Sang-Hee ShimDepartment of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-9964-7231
Kwang-Il LimDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, 04312, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-1895-2080
Kyubong JoDepartment of Chemistry & Interdisciplinary Program of Integrated Biotechnology, Sogang University, Seoul, 04107, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-5551-8195
Jung Heon LeeSchool of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 16419, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-4790-3525

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea NRFNational Research Foundation of Korea NRF-2022R1A6A3A01086178Samsung Research Funding Center SRFC-MA2101-07
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA visualization has advanced across multiple microscopy platforms, albeit with limited progress in the identification of novel staining agents for electron microscopy (EM), notwithstanding its ability to furnish a broad magnification range and high-resolution details for observing DNA molecules. Herein, a non-toxic, universal, and simple method is proposed that uses gold nanoparticle-tagged peptides to stain all types of naturally occurring DNA molecules, enabling their visualization under EM. This method enhances the current DNA visualization capabilities, allowing for sequence-specific, genomic-scale, and multi-conformational visualization. Importantly, an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled pipeline for identifying DNA molecules imaged under EM is presented, followed by classification based on their size, shape, or conformation, and finally, extraction of their significant dimensional features, which to the best of authors' knowledge, has not been reported yet. This pipeline strongly improved the accuracy of obtaining crucial information such as the number and mean length of DNA molecules in a given EM image for linear DNA (salmon sperm DNA) and the circumferential length and diameter for circular DNA (M13 phage DNA), owing to its image segmentation capability. Furthermore, it remained robust to several variations in the raw EM images arising from handling during the DNA staining stage.

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Artificial IntelligenceDNAMetal NanoparticlesMicroscopy, ElectronPeptidesGoldDNAGoldPeptidesartificial intelligenceDNA visualizationelectron microscopygold nanoparticle‐tagged peptidesimage analysis

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PMID39380435
PMCPMC11947522

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