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Minireview | Molecular Biology and Physiology

Scratching the Surface: Bacterial Cell Envelopes at the Nanoscale

Albertus Viljoen, Simon J. Foster, Georg E. Fantner, Jamie K. Hobbs, Yves F. Dufrêne
Danielle A. Garsin, Editor
Albertus Viljoen
aLouvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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bKrebs Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Georg E. Fantner
cLaboratory for Bio- and Nano-Instrumentation, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Jamie K. Hobbs
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Yves F. Dufrêne
aLouvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
eWalloon Excellence in Life Sciences and Biotechnology (WELBIO), Wavre, Belgium
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DOI: 10.1128/mBio.03020-19
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.03020-19
PubMed 
32098817

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  • Published online February 25, 2020.

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Copyright © 2020 Viljoen et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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  • Danielle A. Garsin, Editor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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  1. Albertus Viljoena,
  2. Simon J. Fosterb,
  3. Georg E. Fantnerc,
  4. Jamie K. Hobbsb,d,
  5. Yves F. Dufrênea,e
  1. aLouvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  2. bKrebs Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
  3. cLaboratory for Bio- and Nano-Instrumentation, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
  4. dDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
  5. eWalloon Excellence in Life Sciences and Biotechnology (WELBIO), Wavre, Belgium
  • Address correspondence to Georg E. Fantner, georg.fantner{at}epfl.ch; Jamie K. Hobbs, jamie.hobbs{at}sheffield.ac.uk; or Yves F. Dufrêne, yves.dufrene{at}uclouvain.be.
  • Citation Viljoen A, Foster SJ, Fantner GE, Hobbs JK, Dufrêne YF. 2020. Scratching the surface: bacterial cell envelopes at the nanoscale. mBio 11:e03020-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.03020-19.

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Albertus Viljoen, Simon J. Foster, Georg E. Fantner, Jamie K. Hobbs, Yves F. Dufrêne
mBio Feb 2020, 11 (1) e03020-19; DOI: 10.1128/mBio.03020-19
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    • THE COMPLEX ARCHITECTURE OF BACTERIAL ENVELOPES
    • USING FORCE TO LOOK AT THE CELL ENVELOPE
    • VISUALIZING THE DYNAMICS OF SINGLE MEMBRANE PROTEINS
    • THE MOLECULAR ORGANIZATION OF THE CELL WALL: INSIGHTS FROM PURIFIED SACCULI
    • UNRAVELING THE ULTRASTRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF WHOLE CELLS
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