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ArticleLangmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids2023

Contact Area and Deformation of

Zhou Xu, Alexander Gamble, Wuqi Amy Niu, Morgan N Smith, M Sloan Siegrist, Mark Tuominen, Maria M Santore

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Article in Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Exploring bacteria-surface interactions with a fluorescent membrane tension probe.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Zhou XuDepartment of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6520-1706
Alexander GambleDepartment of Plant and Soil Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
Wuqi Amy NiuDepartment of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
Morgan N SmithDepartment of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
M Sloan SiegristDepartment of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8232-3246
Mark TuominenDepartment of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
Maria M SantoreDepartment of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3689-5064

Funding

Biotechnology Training Program in Applied Life SciencesT32GM135096 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI Jeanne Ann Hardy, Ashish A. Kulkarni · 2020 to 2026
$3.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM135096
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When bacteria adhere to surfaces, the chemical and mechanical character of the cell-substrate interface guides cell function and the development of microcolonies and biofilms. Alternately on bactericidal surfaces, intimate contact is critical to biofilm prevention. The direct study of the buried cell-substrate interfaces at the heart of these behaviors is hindered by the small bacterial cell size and inaccessibility of the contact region. Here, we present a total internal reflectance fluorescence depletion approach to measure the size of the cell-substrate contact region and quantify the gap separation and curvature near the contact zone, providing an assessment of the shapes of the near-surface undersides of adhered bacterial cells. Resolution of the gap height is about 10%, down to a few nanometers at contact. Using 1 and 2 μm silica spheres as calibration standards we report that, for flagella-free

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Bacterial AdhesionEscherichia coliAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriaBiofilmsCationsCell MembraneSurface PropertiesAnti-Bacterial AgentsCations

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PMID37053037
PMCPMC10685399

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