Two-photon fluorescence microscopy studies of bipolar tetraether giant liposomes from thermoacidophilic archaebacteria Sulfolobus acidocaldarius

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 416-425

  Bagatolli, Luis ^a   Gratton, Enrico ^a   Khan, Tapan K ^b   Chong, Parkson Lee Gau ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOSOME;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LIPID ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; TEMPERATURE; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS;

EID: 0033945390     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(00)76303-X     Document Type: Article

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