Lipid domains of mycobacteria studied with fluorescent molecular probes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1561-1572

  Christensen, Henriette ^a,b   Garton, Natalie J ^a,b   Horobin, Richard W ^c   Minnikin, David E ^b   Barer, Michael R ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; MEMBRANE LIPID; OCTANOL; WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIPOPHILICITY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MYCOBACTERIUM AURUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM AURUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM GADIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0033031845     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01304.x     Document Type: Article

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