Nanoscale exploration of microbial surfaces using the atomic force microscope.

Abstract:

:Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has recently opened a variety of novel possibilities for imaging and manipulating microbial surfaces in their native environment. While AFM imaging offers a means to visualize surface structures at high resolution and in physiological conditions, AFM force spectroscopy enables researchers to probe a variety of properties, including the unfolding pathways of single-membrane proteins, the elasticity of cell walls and surface macromolecules, and the molecular forces responsible for cell-cell and cell-solid interactions. These nanoscale analyses enable us to answer a number of questions that were difficult to address previously, such as: how does the surface architecture of microbes change as they grow or interact with antibiotics; what is the force required to unfold and extract a single membrane protein; and what are the molecular forces driving the interaction between a pathogen and a host or biomaterial surface? This review will expand on these issues.

journal_name

Future Microbiol

journal_title

Future microbiology

authors

Dufrêne YF

doi

10.2217/17460913.1.4.387

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-12-01 00:00:00

pages

387-96

issue

4

eissn

1746-0913

issn

1746-0921

journal_volume

1

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