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Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging and Force Spectroscopy of Supported Lipid Bilayers
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An atomic force microscopy method for the detection of binding forces between bacteria and a lipid bilayer containing
Elizabeth L Adams1, Salvador Almagro-Moreno, E Fidelma Boyd
1Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA. liz@dbi.udel.edu
Journal of Microbiological Methods
|January 4, 2011
Abstract:
We developed an atomic force microscopy (AFM) method to determine the binding forces between a model cell wall plasma membrane and Vibrio cholerae. V. cholerae cells were covalently attached to AFM probes and forces were determined against a lipid bilayer containing sialic acid (N-acetylneuraminic acid) molecules as well as several control surfaces.

