Determination of Bacterial Surface Charge Density Via Saturation of Adsorbed Ions
M. J. Wilhelm, M. Sharifian Gh., C.-M. Chang, T. Wu, Y. Li, J. Ma, H.-L. Dai
This paper introduces a method to measure bacterial surface charge density using second harmonic light scattering and finds that Gram-negative bacteria have seven times higher negative charge density than Gram-positive bacteria.
bioRxiv · Sep 29, 2020Biophysics