Apertureless scanning near-field optical microscopy of sparsely labeled tobacco mosaic viruses and the intermediate filament desmin

• Alexander Harder,
• Mareike Dieding,
• Volker Walhorn,
• Sven Degenhard,
• Andreas Brodehl,
• Christina Wege,
• Hendrik Milting and
• Dario Anselmetti

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 510–516, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.60

• desmin intermediate filament protein assembles to extensive fibrous networks, which are an integral part of the cytoskeleton of heart muscle cells. Several mutations of the desmin gene are associated with severe muscle diseases like arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) [18][19][20][21