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Use of the optical tweezers assay. (a) Attachment between a trapped bead and a pilus-bearing bacterium. (b) Optical microscopy image of the attachment event. The scale bar is 1 µm. (c) Example of the measurement of a pulling event using the optical tweezers assay.