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ArticleACS applied bio materials2020

Using Atomic Force Microscopy To Illuminate the Biophysical Properties of Microbes.

John W Goss, Catherine B Volle

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Article in ACS applied bio materials, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

John W GossDepartment of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02481, United States.
Catherine B VolleDepartments of Biology and Chemistry, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa 52314, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5609-1461
Cornell University · USWellesley College · US

Funding

Quantitative AFM Investigations of Adhesion of a Planktonic Bacterial Predator to Biofilm PreyR15GM120665 · NIGMS · OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE · PI FERGUSON, MEGAN A, NUNEZ, MEGAN ELIZABETH · 2016 to 2016
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NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM120665
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since its invention in 1986, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has grown from a system designed for imaging inorganic surfaces to a tool used to probe the biophysical properties of living cells and tissues. AFM is a scanning probe technique and uses a pyramidal tip attached to a flexible cantilever to scan across a surface, producing a highly detailed image. While many research articles include AFM images, fewer include force-distance curves, from which several biophysical properties can be determined. In a single force-distance curve, the cantilever is lowered and raised from the surface, while the forces between the tip and the surface are monitored. Modern AFM has a wide variety of applications, but this review will focus on exploring the mechanobiology of microbes, which we believe is of particular interest to those studying biomaterials. We briefly discuss experimental design as well as different ways of extracting meaningful values related to cell surface elasticity, cell stiffness, and cell adhesion from force-distance curves. We also highlight both classic and recent experiments using AFM to illuminate microbial biophysical properties.

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adhesionatomic force microscopycell stiffnessforce–distance curvemembrane elasticitymicrobes

Identifiers

PMID32851362
PMCPMC7447269
OpenAlexW2995814382

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