Native fluorescence and excitation spectroscopic changes in bacillus subtilis and staphylococcus aureus bacteria subjected to conditions of starvation

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 4080-4087

  Alimova, Alexandra ^a   Katz, Alvin ^a   Savage, Howard E ^b   Shah, Mahendra ^b   Minko, Glenn ^a   Will, Daniel V ^c   Rosen, Richard B ^c   Mc Cormick, Steven A ^b   Alfano, Robert R ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Pathology ^*  (United States)

^c NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; DIPICOLINIC ACID; IRON; PICOLINIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SIDEROPHORE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STARVATION;

3-HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CULTURE MEDIA; IRON; PICOLINIC ACIDS; SIDEROPHORES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPORES, BACTERIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STARVATION; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACIDS; BACTERIA; QUENCHING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

EXCITATION SPECTRA;

FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0041308084     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004080     Document Type: Article

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