Non-destructive Imaging of Individual Bio-Molecules

Details Non-destructive Imaging of Individual Bio-Molecules Non-destructive Imaging of Individual Bio-Molecules

2009-10-08

arxiv.org/abs/0910.1499v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 095501 (2010)

Physics

Biological Physics

11 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.095501

Radiation damage is considered to be the major problem that still prevents imaging an individual biological molecule for structural analysis. So far, all known mapping techniques using sufficient short wave-length radiation, be it X-rays or high energy electrons, circumvent this problem by averaging over many molecules. Averaging, however, leaves conformational details uncovered. Even the anticipated use of ultra-short but extremely bright X-ray bursts of a Free Electron Laser shall afford averaging over 10^6 molecules to arrive at atomic resolution. Here we present direct experimental evidence for non-destructive imaging of individual DNA molecules. In fact, we show that DNA withstands coherent low energy electron radiation with deBroglie wavelength in the Angstrom regime despite a vast dose of 10^8 electrons/nm^2 accumulated over more than one hour.

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