Quantitative nanoscale electrostatics of viruses.

@article{HernandoPrez2015QuantitativeNE,
  title={Quantitative nanoscale electrostatics of viruses.},
  author={Mercedes Hernando-P{\'e}rez and Alexander X. Cartagena-Rivera and An{\vz}e Lo{\vs}dorfer Bo{\vz}i{\vc} and Pablo J P Carrillo and Carmen San Mart{\'i}n and Mauricio G. Mateu and A Raman and R. Podgornik and Pedro J. de Pablo},
  journal={Nanoscale},
  year={2015},
  volume={7 41},
  pages={
          17289-98
        }
}
Electrostatics is one of the fundamental driving forces of the interaction between biomolecules in solution. In particular, the recognition events between viruses and host cells are dominated by both specific and non-specific interactions and the electric charge of viral particles determines the electrostatic force component of the latter. Here we probe the charge of individual viruses in liquid milieu by measuring the electrostatic force between a viral particle and the Atomic Force Microscope… 
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