Optical tweezers for single molecule force spectroscopy on bacterial adhesion organelles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6326, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Andersson, Magnus ^a   Axner, Ove ^a   Uhlin, Bernt Eric ^a   Fällman, Erik ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bacterial fimbriae; E. Coli; Force measuring optical tweezers; Macromolecules; P pili; PapA; Unfolding and refolding

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ADHESION; BIOPOLYMERS; DRUG PRODUCTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; SINGLE MOLECULE FORCE SPECTROSCOPY;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33751425872     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.683796     Document Type: Conference Paper

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