Electrorelease of Escherichia coli nucleoids

Folia Microbiologica

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 365-370

  Suleymanoglu E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Upper Austrian Research GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EDETIC ACID; LYSOZYME;

ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; ELECTRICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHODOLOGY; SPHEROPLAST; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL NUCLEUS; EDETIC ACID; ELECTRICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MURAMIDASE; ORGANELLES; SPHEROPLASTS;

EID: 0036052702     PISSN: 00155632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02818691     Document Type: Article

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