Single-Molecule Level Using AFM Force Spectroscopy

Biophysics
Studying Integrin-Mediated Cell Adhesion at the Single-Molecule Level Using AFM Force Spectroscopy

Clemens M. Franz, Anna Taubenberger, Pierre-Henri Puech, and Daniel J. Muller

Sci. STKE 2007 (406), pl5. [DOI: 10.1126/stke.4062007pl5]
Forces between adhesion receptors and their ligands can now be measured at the level of single molecules.

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