Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2014,5, 1501–1512, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.163
surface, single cell force spectroscopy is applied: A single cell of the apathogenic species Staphylococcuscarnosus isolate TM300 is used as bacterial probe. With the exact same bacterium, hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces can be probed and compared. We find that as far as 50 nm from the surface
hydrophobic (hydrophilic) surfaces.
Keywords: atomic force microscopy (AFM); force spectroscopy; hydrophobic interaction; single cell; Staphylococcuscarnosus; Introduction
Members of the genus Staphylococcus are known to form extremely resistant biofilms, some of which can cause severe infectious diseases
[1]. Staphylococcuscarnosus is an apathogenic member of that genus and has been described first in the early 1980s [2]. The name Staphylococcuscarnosus reflects its important role in meat production as it reduces nitrate to nitrite and prevents food rancidity by producing the anti-oxidant enzymes
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Figure 1:
Optical image of a single S. carnosus bacterium immobilized by (poly)dopamine on a tipless cantilev...