Immobilisation of living bacteria for AFM imaging under physiological conditions |
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Authors: | Rikke Louise Meyer Xingfei Zhou Lone Tang Ayyoob Arpanaei Peter Kingshott Flemming Besenbacher |
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Affiliation: | 1. Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark;2. Department of Biological Sciences, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark;3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark |
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Abstract: | Atomic force microscopy (AFM) holds great potential for studying the nanoscale surface structures of living cells, and to measure their interactions with abiotic surfaces, other cells, or specific biomolecules. However, the application of AFM in microbiology is challenging due to the difficulty of immobilising bacterial cells to a flat surface without changing the cell surface properties or cell viability. We have performed an extensive and thorough study of how to functionalise surfaces in order to immobilise living bacteria for AFM studies in liquid environments. Our aim was to develop a scheme which allows bacterial cells to be immobilised to a flat surface with sufficient strength to avoid detachment during the AFM scanning, and without affecting cell surface chemistry, structure, and viability. We compare and evaluate published methods, and present a new, reproducible, and generally applicable scheme for immobilising bacteria cells for an AFM imaging. |
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Keywords: | Immobilisation Gelatin Polyethyleneimine Cell-Tak Poly-l-lysine |
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