Friday, July 31, 2015

Quantitative nanoscale electrostatics of viruses

Nanoscale, 2015, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C5NR04274G, Paper
M. Hernando-Perez, A. X. Cartagena-Rivera, A. Losdorfer Bozic, P. J. P. Carrillo, C. San Martin, M. G. Mateu, A. Raman, R. Podgornik, P. J. de Pablo
The recognition events between viruses and host cells are dominated by both specific and non-specific electrostatic interactions determined by the charge of viral particles. Here we probe the charge of individual viruses in aqueous solutions by measuring the electrostatic force between each viral particle and the Atomic Force Microscope tip.
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