Volume 10, Issue 15 p. 3018-3025
Communication

Nanoscale Probing the Kinetics of Oriented Bacterial Cell Growth Using Atomic Force Microscopy

Peipei Chen,

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale, U1001; Faculty of Medicine, Paris Descartes University, 75014 Paris, France

Peipei Chen and Luping Xu contributed equally to this work.

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Luping Xu,

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale, U1001; Faculty of Medicine, Paris Descartes University, 75014 Paris, France

Peipei Chen and Luping Xu contributed equally to this work.

Present address: Center for Nano and Micro Mechanics, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China

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Jing Liu,

National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190 China

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 China

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Felix J. H. Hol,

Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 2628 CJ, The Netherlands

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Juan E. Keymer,

Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 2628 CJ, The Netherlands

Present address: Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Casilla 653, Santiago, Chile

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François Taddei,

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale, U1001; Faculty of Medicine, Paris Descartes University, 75014 Paris, France

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Dong Han,

Corresponding Author

National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190 China

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Ariel B. Lindner,

Corresponding Author

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale, U1001; Faculty of Medicine, Paris Descartes University, 75014 Paris, France

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First published: 06 April 2014
Citations: 6

Present address: Center for Nano and Micro Mechanics, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China

Abstract

Probing oriented bacterial cell growth on the nanoscale: A novel open-top micro-channel is developed to facilitate the AFM imaging of physically trapped but freely growing bacteria. The growth curves of individual Escherichia coli cells with nanometer resolution and their kinetic nano-mechanical properties are quantitatively measured.

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