Visualization of membrane domains in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1166-1172

  Fishov, Itzhak ^a   Woldringh, Conrad L ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; DYE; MEMBRANE PHOSPHOLIPID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; STAINING;

BINDING SITES; CELL DIVISION; CELL MEMBRANE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENT DYES; INDOLES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PYRIDINIUM COMPOUNDS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0033031388     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01425.x     Document Type: Article

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