The spheroplast lysis assay for yeast in microtiter plate format

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 3325-3327

  Ovalle, Rafael ^a   Spencer, Moyah ^a   Thiwanont, Monthiwa ^a   Lipke, Peter N ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL WALL; CYTOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPHEROPLAST; YEAST CELL;

EID: 0032803863     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.8.3325-3327.1999     Document Type: Article

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