| Range |
~3-6 µm
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| Organism |
Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
| Reference |
Ahmad MR, Nakajima M, Kojima S, Homma M, Fukuda T. The effects of cell sizes, environmental conditions, and growth phases on the strength of individual W303 yeast cells inside ESEM. IEEE Trans Nanobioscience. 2008 Sep7(3):185-93 DOI: 10.1109/TNB.2008.2002281 abstractPubMed ID18779098
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| Method |
Abstract: "[Investigators] performed in situ measurements of mechanical properties of individual W303 wild-type yeast cells were performed by using an integrated environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM)-nanomanipulator system." |
| Comments |
Abstract: "Compression experiments to penetrate the cell walls of single cells of different cell sizes (about 3-6µm diameter), environmental conditions (600 Pa and 3 mPa), and growth phases (early log, mid log, late log and saturation) were conducted." See BNID 103896 |
| Entered by |
Paul Jorgensen |
| ID |
100451 |