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Atomic Force Microscopy in Microbiology: New Structural and Functional Insights into the Microbial Cell Surface

Microbial cells sense and respond to their environment using their surface constituents. Therefore, understanding the assembly and biophysical properties of cell surface molecules is an important research topic. With its ability to observe living microbial cells at nanometer resolution and to manipu...

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Autor principal: Dufrêne, Yves F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society of Microbiology 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25053785
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01363-14
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description Microbial cells sense and respond to their environment using their surface constituents. Therefore, understanding the assembly and biophysical properties of cell surface molecules is an important research topic. With its ability to observe living microbial cells at nanometer resolution and to manipulate single-cell surface molecules, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has emerged as a powerful tool in microbiology. Here, we survey major breakthroughs made in cell surface microbiology using AFM techniques, emphasizing the most recent structural and functional insights.
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spelling pubmed-41201972014-08-12 Atomic Force Microscopy in Microbiology: New Structural and Functional Insights into the Microbial Cell Surface Dufrêne, Yves F. mBio Minireview Microbial cells sense and respond to their environment using their surface constituents. Therefore, understanding the assembly and biophysical properties of cell surface molecules is an important research topic. With its ability to observe living microbial cells at nanometer resolution and to manipulate single-cell surface molecules, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has emerged as a powerful tool in microbiology. Here, we survey major breakthroughs made in cell surface microbiology using AFM techniques, emphasizing the most recent structural and functional insights. American Society of Microbiology 2014-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4120197/ /pubmed/25053785 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01363-14 Text en Copyright © 2014 Dufrêne. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) , which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120197/
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