Arakawa H, Umemura K, Ikai A
Faculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan.
Nature. 1992 Jul 9;358(6382):171-3. doi: 10.1038/358171a0.
Scanning tunnelling microscopy and atomic force microscopy, one scanning the tunnelling current and the other the repulsive atomic force between same and probe, can give high-quality surface topographies of proteins, which have been difficult to obtain by more conventional methods such as transmission electron microscopy.
