1 Nanomechanics of Proteins, Both Folded and Disordered ........ 1
Rubén Hervás, Albert Galera-Prat, Àngel Gómez-Sicilia,
Fernando Losada-Urzáiz, María del Carmen Fernández, Debora
Fernández-Bravo, Elena Santana, Clara Barrio-García,
Carolina Melero, and Mariano Carrión-Vázquez
2 Force Spectroscopy and Recognition Imaging of Ceils from
the Immune System ........................................... 49
Bianca L. Bozna, Memed Duman, and Peter Hinterdorfer
3 Catch Bonds of Integrin/Ligand Interactions ................. 77
Cheng Zhu and Wei Chen
4 AFM Visualization of Protein-DNA Interactions ............... 97
Yuri L. Lyubchenko
5 Nanovisualization of Proteins in Action Using High-Speed
AFM ........................................................ 119
Takayuki Uchihashi, Noriyuki Kodera, and Toshio Ando
6 Enzyme Catalysis at the Single-Molecule Level .............. 149
Raul Perez-Jimenez and Jorge Alegre-Cebollada
7 Single-Molecule Studies of Amyloidogenic Proteins .......... 169
Miklós S.Z. Kellermayer, Árpád Karsai, Ünige Murvai,
Szilvia Erdélyi-Bótor, József Kardos, and Ricardo
H. Pires
8 Stretching and Imaging Individual Proteins on Live Cells
Using Atomic Force Microscopy .............................. 211
David Alsteens and Yves F. Dufrêne
9 Individual Proteins Under Mechanical Stress: Lessons
from Theory and Computer Simulations ....................... 235
Dmitrii E. Makarov
Index ......................................................... 269
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