Nano Step Experiment (Nanostep)

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Overview
title In-situ observation of growth mechanisms of protein crystals and their perfection under microgravity
category Crystal Growth
type ISS Experiment
facility Solution Crystallization Observation Facility
cell Nano Step Cartridge
start date (GMT) 2012-08-02 (215)
end date (GMT) 2012-12-14 (349)
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Investigators
function name organization
PI Katsuo TSUKAMOTO Tohoku University
CI Izumi YOSHIZAKI Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
CI Gen SAZAKI Hokkaido University
CI Masaru TACHIBANA Yokohama City University
CI Etsuro YOKOYAMA Gakushuin University
CI Tetsuo OKUTSU Gunma University
CI Kenji WAIZUMI Yamaguchi University
CI Yoshihisa SUZUKI Tokushima University
Related Publication
[1] K. Tsukamoto, e. al, Do we need microgravity to improve the diffraction properties of protein crystals?, JASMA, 34(1) (2017), 1–7 10.15011//jasma.34.340117
[2] T. Yamazaki, Y. Kimura, P.G. Vekilov, E. Furukawa, M. Shirai, H. Matsumoto, A.E.S. Van Driessche, K. Tsukamoto, Two types of amorphous protein particles facilitate crystal nucleation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, (2017) 10.1073/pnas.1606948114
[3] K. Tsukamoto, In-situ observation of crystal growth and the mechanism, Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials, 62 (2016), 111–125. 10.1016/j.pcrysgrow.2016.04.005
[4] H. Koizumi, R. Suzuki, M. Tachibana, K. Tsukamoto, I. Yoshizaki, S. Fukuyama, Y. Suzuki, S. Uda, K. Kojima, Importance of Determination of Crystal Quality in Protein Crystals when Performing High-Resolution Structural Analysis, Crystal Growth & Design, 16 (2016), 4905–4909. 10.1021/acs.cgd.6b00457
[5] Y. Tominaga, M. Maruyama, M. Yoshimura, H. Koizumi, M. Tachibana, S. Sugiyama, H. Adachi, K. Tsukamoto, H. Matsumura, K. Takano, S. Murakami, T. Inoue, H.Y. Yoshikawa, Y. Mori, Promotion of protein crystal growth by actively switching crystal growth mode via femtosecond laser ablation, Nature Photonics, 10 (2016), 723–726. 10.1038/nphoton.2016.202
[6] T. Yamazaki, K. Tsukamoto, I. Yoshizaki, S. Fukuyama, H. Miura, T. Shimaoka, T. Maki, K. Oshi, Y. Kimura, L. W., J. C., Development of compartment for studies on the growth of protein crystals in space, Review of Scientific Instruments, 87 (2016), 033107. 10.1063/1.4942961
[7] K. Tsukamoto, In Situ Observation of Crystal Growth and Flows by Optical Techniques in: T. Nishinaga (Ed.) Handbook of Crystal Growth (Second Edition), Elsevier,Boston, 2015, pp. 1031–1060.
[8] Y. Suzuki, K. Tsukamoto, I. Yoshizaki, H. Miura, T. Fujiwara, First Direct Observation of Impurity Effects on the Growth Rate of Tetragonal Lysozyme Crystals under Microgravity as Measured by Interferometry, Crystal Growth & Design, 15 (2015), 4787–4794. 10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00456
[9] W. Pan, H. Xu, R. Zhang, J. Xu, K. Tsukamoto, J. Han, A. Li, The influence of low frequency of external electric field on nucleation enhancement of hen egg-white lysozyme (HEWL), Journal of Crystal Growth, 428 (2015), 35–39. 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2015.07.018
[10] T. Fujiwara, Y. Suzuki, I. Yoshizaki, K. Tsukamoto, K. Murayama, S. Fukuyama, K. Hosokawa, K. Oshi, D. Ito, T. Yamazaki, M. Tachibana, H. Miura, Correction of the equilibrium temperature caused by slight evaporation of water in protein crystal growth cells during long-term space experiments at International Space Station, The Review of scientific instruments, 86 (2015), 083704. 10.1063/1.4928491
[11] Y. Kimura, H. Niinomi, K. Tsukamoto, J.M. Garcia-Ruiz, In situ live observation of nucleation and dissolution of sodium chlorate nanoparticles by transmission electron microscopy, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 136 (2014), 1762–1765. 10.1021/ja412111f
[12] H. Niinomi, A. Horio, S. Harada, T. Ujihara, H. Miura, Y. Kimura, K. Tsukamoto, Solubility Measurement of a Metastable Achiral Crystal of Sodium Chlorate in Solution Growth, Journal of Crystal Growth, 394 (2014), 106–111. 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2014.02.034
[13] Y. Araki, K. Tsukamoto, R. Takagi, T. Miyashita, N. Oyabu, K. Kobayashi, H. Yamada, Direct Observation of the Influence of Additives on Calcite Hydration by Frequency Modulation Atomic Force Microscopy, Crystal Growth & Design, 14 (2014), 6254–6260. 10.1021/cg500891j
[14] H. Koizumi, M. Tachibana, I. Yoshizaki, S. Fukuyama, K. Tsukamoto, Y. Suzuki, S. Uda, K. Kojima, Dislocations in High-Quality Glucose Isomerase Crystals Grown from Seed Crystals, Crystal Growth & Design, 14 (2014), 5111–5116. 10.1021/cg500731v
[15] H. Niinomi, H. Miura, Y. Kimura, M. Uwaha, H. Katsuno, S. Harada, T. Ujihara, K. Tsukamoto, Emergence and Amplification of Chirality via Achiral–Chiral Polymorphic Transformation in Sodium Chlorate Solution Growth, Crystal Growth & Design, 14 (2014), 3596–3602. 10.1021/cg500527t
[16] E. King Helen, H. Satoh, K. Tsukamoto, A. Putnis, Surface-specific measurements of olivine dissolution by phase-shift interferometry, American Mineralogist, 2014, pp. 377. 10.2138/am.2014.4606
[17] K. Murayama, K. Tsukamoto, A. Srivastava, H. Miura, E. Yokoyama, Y. Kimura, Measurement of two-dimensional distribution of surface supersaturation over a sodium chlorate crystal surface using multidirectional interferometry, Crystal Research and Technology, 49 (2014), 315–322. 10.1002/crat.201400010
[18] H. Miura, R. Kobayashi, Phase-Field Modeling of Step Dynamics on Growing Crystal Surface: Direct Integration of Growth Units to Step Front, Crystal Growth & Design, 15 (2015), 2165–2175. 10.1021/cg501806d
[19] H. Niinomi, A. Horio, S. Harada, T. Ujihara, H. Miura, Y. Kimura, K. Tsukamoto, Solubility Measurement of a Metastable Achiral Crystal of Sodium Chlorate in Solution Growth, Journal of Crystal Growth, (2014). 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2014.02.034
[20] H. Miura, K. Tsukamoto, Role of impurity on growth hysteresis and oscillatory growth of crystals, Crystal Growth and Design, 13 (2013), 3588–3595. 10.1021/cg400558b
[21] W. Pan, J. Xu, K. Tsukamoto, M. Koizumi, T. Yamazaki, R. Zhou, A. Li, Y. Fu, Crystal Growth of Hen Egg-White Lysozyme (HEWL) under Various Gravity Conditions, Journal of Crystal Growth, 377 (2013), 43–50. 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2013.04.056
[22] S. Ueta, H. Satoh, H. Kato, A. Ueda, K. Tsukamoto, A novel technique of in situ phase-shift interferometry applied for faint dissolution of bulky montmorillonite in alkaline solution, Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 50 (2013), 731–741. 10.1080/00223131.2013.799397
[23] Y. Araki, K. Tsukamoto, N. Oyabu, K. Kobayashi, H. Yamada, Atomic-Resolution Imaging of Aragonite (001) Surface in Water by Frequency Modulation Atomic Force Microscopy, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 51 (2012), 08KB09. 10.1143/JJAP.51.08KB09
[24] G. Sazaki, A.E.S. Van Driessche, G.L. Dai, M. Okada, T. Matsui, F. Otalora, K. Tsukamoto, K. Nakajima, In Situ Observation of Elementary Growth Processes of Protein Crystals by Advanced Optical Microscopy, Protein and Peptide Letters, 19 (2012), 743–760. 10.2174/092986612800793118
[25] A. Srivastava, K. Tsukamoto, K. Murayama, Single lens-based schlieren microscope for investigation of three-dimensional buoyancy-induced convective flow fields, Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing, 18 (2011), 347–369. 10.1615/JFlowVisImageProc.2012004720
[26] A.E.S. Van Driessche, J.M. García-Ruíz, K. Tsukamoto, L.D. Patiño-Lopez, H. Satoh, Ultraslow growth rates of giant gypsum crystals, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (2011), 15721–15726. 10.1073/pnas.1105233108
[27] Y. Kimura, H. Miura, K. Tsukamoto, C. Li, T. Maki, Interferometric in-situ observation during nucleation and growth of WO 3 nanocrystals in vapor phase, Journal of Crystal Growth, 316 (2011), 196–200. 10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2010.12.074
[28] H. Miura, Phase-Field Modeling of Step Dynamics on Growing Crystal Surface: Step Pinning Induced by Impurities, Crystal Growth & Design, 15 (2015), 4142–4148. 10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00762
References
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nanostep_parameter.pdf (968KB) Experiment parameter list of Nano Step Experiment.
nanostep_experiment_sequence.pdf (256KB) Typical temperature profile of Nano Step Experiment. Reffer from Yoshizaki et al., Growth rate measurements of lysozyme crystals under microgravity conditions by laser interferometry, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 84, 103707 (2013); doi: 10.1063/1.4826090
nanostep_telemetry_list.pdf (32KB) Telemetry list of Nano Step Experiment.
aos_los.pdf (16KB) Chart of AOS/LOS of satellite communications.
nanostep_cell_diagram.pdf (83KB) Drawing, Nano Step Specimen Cell Unit.
nanostep_observation_schema.pdf (1,971KB) Schema, observation systems of Nano Step Experiment. Reffer from Yoshizaki et al., Growth rate measurements of lysozyme crystals under microgravity conditions by laser interferometry, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 84, 103707 (2013); doi: 10.1063/1.4826090