Adaptation of nanoarrays for the study of α-synuclein aggregation: preliminary results
Author(s) -
Heidelinde R. C. Dietrich,
R. L. van den Doel,
Wolfgang Hoyer,
Wim van Oel,
Guus Liqui Lung,
Yuval Garini,
Thomas M. Jovin,
Ian Young
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
proceedings of spie, the international society for optical engineering/proceedings of spie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 1996-756X
pISSN - 0277-786X
DOI - 10.1117/12.587493
Subject(s) - computer science , adaptation (eye) , miniaturization , protein aggregation , nanotechnology , materials science , chemistry , neuroscience , biology , biochemistry
In previous publications we have shown that we can perform enzymatic reactions in nanoarrays by means of a microarray-reader based on a conventional microscope. In this publication we report on a modification of this system in order to monitor the aggregation kinetics of the natively unfolded protein α-synuclein. We describe the motivation for this development, the problems associated with the miniaturization of the aggregation assay, and the validation of our modifications.
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