Recent Publications (Selected):

 

Marszalek, P.E., Oberhauser, A.F., Li, H. & Fernandez, J.M. (2003). The force driven conformations of heparin studied with single molecule force microscopy. Biophysical Journal, in press.

 

Carrión-Vázquez, M., Li, H., Lu, H., Marszalek, P.E., Oberhauser, A.F. & Fernández, J.M. (2003).  The mechanical stability of ubiquitin is linkage dependent. Nature Structural Biology, in press.

 

Li, H., Linke, W.A., Oberhauser, A.F.  Carrion-Vazquez, M., Kerkvliet, J.G., Lu, H.,  Marszalek, P.E. & Fernandez, J.M. (2002).  Reverse engineering of the giant muscle protein titin.  Nature 418, 998-1002.

 

Marszalek, P.E., Li, H., Oberhauser, A.F. & Fernandez, J.M. (2002).  Chair-boat  transitions in single polysaccharide molecules observed with force-ramp AFM.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA).  99, 4278-4283.

 

Marszalek, P.E., Li, H. & Fernandez, J.M. (2001).  Fingerprinting polysaccharides with single molecule AFM.  Nature Biotechnology  19, 258-262.

 

Fisher, T.E., Marszalek, P.E. & Fernandez J.M. (2000).  Stretching single molecules into novel conformations using the atomic force microscope.  Nature Structural Biology  7, 719-724.

 

 

Marszalek, P.E., Greenleaf, W.J., Li, H., Oberhauser, A.F., & Fernandez, J.M. (2000).  AFM captures quantized plastic deformations in gold nanowires.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA  97, 6282-6286.

 

Marszalek, P.E., Lu, H., Li, H., Carrion-Vazquez, M., Oberhauser, A.F., Schulten, K., & Fernandez, J.M. (1999).  Mechanical unfolding intermediates in titin modules.  Nature  402, 100-103.

 

Marszalek, P.E., Pang, Y-P., Li, H., El Yazal, J., Oberhauser, A.F, & Fernandez, J.M. (1999).  Atomic levers control pyranose ring conformations.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA  96, 7894-7898.

 

Marszalek, P.E., Oberhauser, A.F., Pang, Y.-P., & Fernandez, J.M. (1998).  Polysaccharide elasticity governed by chair-boat transitions of the glucopyranose ring.  Nature  396, 661-664.