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ArticleNature communications2024

Atomically resolved imaging of the conformations and adsorption geometries of individual β-cyclodextrins with non-contact AFM.

Márkó Grabarics, Benjamín Mallada, Shayan Edalatmanesh, Alejandro Jiménez-Martín, Martin Pykal, Martin Ondráček, Petra Kührová, Weston B Struwe, Pavel Banáš, Stephan Rauschenbach and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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  1. Automating Model Building for SPM Images of Biomolecules Using MISO.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
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  4. Clean Electrospray Deposition of Porphyrin Molecules and Polyethylene Glycol Chains onto a Au(100) Surface.The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces · 2026
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12 authors.

Márkó Grabarics *Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, OX1 3QU, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2550-637X
Benjamín Mallada *Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, 16200, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8209-9977
Shayan Edalatmanesh *Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, 16200, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9095-1525
Alejandro Jiménez-MartínInstitute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, 16200, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4956-4996
Martin PykalCzech Advanced Technology and Research Institute, Palacký University Olomouc, 78371, Olomouc, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9905-9931
Martin OndráčekInstitute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, 16200, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8808-1487
Petra KührováCzech Advanced Technology and Research Institute, Palacký University Olomouc, 78371, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Weston B StruweKavli Institute for Nanoscience Discovery, University of Oxford, OX1 3QU, Oxford, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0594-226X
Pavel BanášCzech Advanced Technology and Research Institute, Palacký University Olomouc, 78371, Olomouc, Czech Republic. pavel.banas@upol.cz.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7137-8225
Stephan RauschenbachDepartment of Chemistry, University of Oxford, OX1 3QU, Oxford, UK. stephan.rauschenbach@chem.ox.ac.uk.
Pavel JelínekInstitute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, 16200, Prague, Czech Republic. jelinekp@fzu.cz.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5645-8542
Bruno de la TorreCzech Advanced Technology and Research Institute, Palacký University Olomouc, 78371, Olomouc, Czech Republic. bruno.de@upol.cz.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-6833

Funding

Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports) CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004587Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy (Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports) ID:90254
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glycans, consisting of covalently linked sugar units, are a major class of biopolymers essential to all known living organisms. To better understand their biological functions and further applications in fields from biomedicine to materials science, detailed knowledge of their structure is essential. However, due to the extraordinary complexity and conformational flexibility of glycans, state-of-the-art glycan analysis methods often fail to provide structural information with atomic precision. Here, we combine electrospray deposition in ultra-high vacuum with non-contact atomic force microscopy and theoretical calculations to unravel the structure of β-cyclodextrin, a cyclic glucose oligomer, with atomic-scale detail. Our results, established on the single-molecule level, reveal the different adsorption geometries and conformations of β-cyclodextrin. The position of individual hydroxy groups and the location of the stabilizing intramolecular H-bonds are deduced from atomically resolved images, enabling the unambiguous assignment of the molecular structure and demonstrating the potential of the method for glycan analysis.

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