Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Seeing the unseen: High-resolution AFM imaging captures antibiotic action in bacterial membranes

  • Telmo O. Paiva,
  • Albertus Viljoen,
  • Yves F. Dufrêne

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33839-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 3

Abstract

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Advances in atomic force microscopy (AFM) techniques and methodologies for microbiology contribute to our understanding of the microbial cell surface. Recent studies show that AFM imaging of cells and membranes at (near) molecular resolution allows detailed visualization of membranes interacting with drugs.