Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nanomechanics of proteins, both folded and disordered / Rubén Hervás, Albert Galera-Prat, Àngel Gómez-Sicilia, Fernando Losada-Urzáiz and María del Carmen Fernández, et al. -- Force spectroscopy and recognition imaging of cells from the immune system / Bianca L. Bozna, Memed Duman and Peter Hinterdorfer -- Catch bonds of integrin/ligand Interactions / Cheng Zhu and Wei Chen -- AFM visualization of protein-DNA interactions / Yuri L. Lyubchenko -- Nanovisualization of proteins in action using high-speed AFM / Takayuki Uchihashi, Noriyuki Kodera and Toshio Ando -- Enzyme catalysis at the single-molecule level / Raul Perez-Jimenez and Jorge Alegre-Cebollada -- Single-molecule studies of amyloidogenic proteins / Miklós S. Z. Kellermayer, Árpád Karsai, Ünige Murvai, Szilvia Erdélyi-Bótor and József Kardos, et al. -- Stretching and imaging individual proteins on live cells using atomic force microscopy / David Alsteens and Yves F. Dufrêne -- Individual proteins under mechanical stress: lessons from theory and computer simulations / Dmitrii E. Makarov.