key: cord-0848077-ozdkmc19
authors: Engel, Andreas; Alsteens, David; Müller, Daniel J.
title: Editorial: Scanning Probe Microscopies and Related Methods in Biology
date: 2021-03-29
journal: Front Mol Biosci
DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2021.657939
sha: e77b5f31743504873120c1302ef2c49bf40ce9bb
doc_id: 848077
cord_uid: ozdkmc19

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In times of a pandemic catastrophe, the efficiency of anticontamination fluids is critical. High-resolution microscopies including AFM are excellent tools to assess the effect of different alcohol solutions by simple observations of the morphological changes of viral samples induced by the treatments. The experiments on Adenovirus Martín-González et al. could be adapted under safe conditions for assessing actions to eliminate Covid-19 contamination.

On-going developments of AFM technology bring new imaging modes offering the acquisition of multiple parameters of the addressed biological structure or unprecedented time resolution for monitoring protein dynamics. Also, multifunctional hollow cantilevers have been designed for delivery or extraction of biomolecules to/from single cells. This progress is not summarized here, but may become an interesting research topic in the future.

High speed AFM and nanoInfrared spectroscopy investigation of abeta1-42 peptide variants and their interaction with POPC/SM/Chol/GM1 model membranes

Controlling fibronectin fibrillogenesis using visible light

Watching amyloid fibrils grow by time-lapse atomic force microscopy

AFM probing of amyloid-beta 42 dimers and trimers

Virucidal action mechanism of alcohol and divalent cations against human adenovirus

mRNA vaccine delivery using lipid nanoparticles

One-Step Calibration of AFM in Liquid

Mechanical characterization of liposomes and extracellular vesicles, a protocol

Next generation methods for single-molecule force spectroscopy on polyproteins and receptorligand complexes

Next generation methods for single-molecule force spectroscopy on polyproteins and receptor-ligand complexes

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