Recent progress in the application of atomic force microscopy imaging and force spectroscopy to microbiology

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 317-323

  Dufrêne, Yves F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HALORHODOPSIN; LIGAND; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL CELL; BIOFILM; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SURFACE; CELL WALL; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; CRYSTAL; DEINOCOCCACEAE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ELASTICITY; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; IMAGING; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SHEWANELLA; SPECTROSCOPY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DEINOCOCCACEAE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SHEWANELLA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0038603949     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5274(03)00058-4     Document Type: Review

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