School of Food Science of Jiangnan University

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Bioengineering

Ligand Nano-cluster Arrays in a Supported Lipid Bilayer

Emmanuelle Benard¹, Fuwei Pi^1,2, Igor Ozerov¹, Anne Charrier¹, Kheya Sengupta¹

¹Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, UMR 7325, CINaM, ²State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science of Jiangnan University

We present a protocol to functionalize glass with nanometric protein patches surrounded by a fluid lipid bilayer. These substrates are compatible with advanced optical microscopy and are expected to serve as platform for cell adhesion and migration studies.