Abstract
Supported lipid bilayers represent a very attractive way to mimic biological membranes, especially to investigate molecular mechanisms associated with the lateral segregation of membrane components. Observation of these model membranes with high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) allows the capture of both topography and dynamics of membrane components, with a spatial resolution in the nanometer range and image capture time of less than 1 s. In this context, we have developed new protocols adapted for HS-AFM to form supported lipid bilayers on small mica disks using the vesicle fusion or Langmuir-Blodgett methods. In this chapter we describe in detail the protocols to fabricate supported artificial bilayers as well as the main guidelines for HS-AFM imaging of such samples.
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The research has been supported by CNRS (PEM and EL), INSERM (PEM), Institut Carnot (EL), and by the ANR program (ANR-11-nano-009-04, ANR-08-NANO-010-03, ANR- 08-PCVI-0003-02, the EpiGenMed Labex ANR-10-LABX-12-01 and the French Infrastructure for Integrated Structural Biology (FRISBI) ANR-10-INBS-05). We are grateful to our collaborators involved in the project, P. Dosset, J. Kokavecz, and C. Le Grimellec.
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Nasrallah, H. et al. (2019). Imaging Artificial Membranes Using High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy. In: Santos, N., Carvalho, F. (eds) Atomic Force Microscopy. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1886. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8894-5_3
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