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Fields of interest:

• Cytoskeleton
• Muscle contraction
• Single-molecule biophysics
• Biomolecular elasticity
• Protein folding
• Optical tweezers
• Atomic force microscopy
• Motor proteins Titin
• Actin
• Amyloid fibrils
• Desmin

Recent publications:

Karsai, Á., Nagy, A., Kengyel, A., Mártonfalvi, Zs., Grama, L., Penke, B. and Kellermayer, M.S.Z.:
Effect of lysine-28 side chain acetylation on the nanomechanical behavior of Alzheimer amyloid ß25-35 fibrils,
J. Chem. Inf. Mod. Vol. 45(6), 1641-1646, 2005.

Karsai, Á., Mártonfalvi, Zs., Nagy, A., Grama, L., Penke, B. and Kellermayer, M.S.Z.:
Mechanical manipulation of Alzheimer's amyloid ß1-42 fibrils,
J. Struct Biol., Vol. 155, 316-326, 2006.

Kiss, B., Karsai, Á. and Kellermayer, M.S.Z.:
Nanomechanical properties of desmin intermediate filaments,
J. Struct Biol., Vol. 155, 327-339, 2006.

Miklós S.Z. Kellermayer, Árpád Karsai, András Kengyel, Attila Nagy, Pasquale Bianco, Tamás Huber, Ágnes Kulcsár, Csaba Niedetzky, Roger Proksch and László Grama:
Spatially and temporally synchronized atomic force and total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy for imaging and manipulating cells and biomolecules,
Biohys. J., Vol. 91, 2665-2677, 2006.

Pasquale Bianco, Attila Nagy, András Kengyel, Dávid Szatmári, Zsolt Mártonfalvi, Tamás Huber and Miklós S.Z. Kellermayer, M.S.Z.:
Interaction forces between F-actin and titin PEVK domain measured with optical tweezers,
Biophys J., Vol. 93, 2102-2109, 2007.

Karsai, Á., Grama, L., M., Murvai, Ü., Soós, K., Penke, B and Kellermayer M.S.Z.:
Mechanisms of oriented amyloid ß25-35 fibril formation on mica. Potassium-dependent oriented growth of amyloid ß25-35 fibrils on mica,
Nanotechnology, Vol. 18, 345102, 2007.

Máté Gyimesi, Andrey K. Tsaturyan, Miklós S.Z. Kellermayer, András Málnási-Csizmadia:
Kinetic Characterization of the Function of Myosin Loop 4 in the Actin-Myosin Interaction,
Biochemistry, Vol. 47(1):283-91, 2008.

Miklós S.Z. Kellermayer, Árpád Karsai, Margit Benke, Katalin Soós, and Botond Penke:
Stepwise dynamics of epitaxially growing single amyloid fibrils,
Proc Natl. Acad. Sci. USA., Vol. 105(1):141-4, 2008.

Árpád Karsai, Ünige Murvai, Katalin Soós, Botond Penke and Miklós S.Z. Kellermayer:
Oriented epitaxial growth of amyloid fibrils of the N27C mutant ß25-35 peptide,
European Biophys. J. (2008) DOI 10.1007/ s00249-007-0253-0. PMID: 18189132

Brennan Decker and Miklós S.Z. Kellermayer:
Periodically arranged interactions within the myosin filament backbone revealed by mechanical unzipping,
J. Mol. Biol. (2008), doi:10.1016/j.jmb. 2008.01.023. PMID: 18262203