Micromanipulation of the Chlamydia pneumoniae inclusion: Implications for cloning and host-pathogen interactions

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-49

  Gieffers, Jens ^a,b   Tamplin, Van ^a   Maass, Matthias ^b   Belland, Robert J ^a   Caldwell, Harlan D ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlamydia; Cloning; Microinjection; Micromanipulation; Mycoplasma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; FEMALE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INJECTION; MICROMANIPULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL INCLUSION; CELL MEMBRANE; GENETICS; HELA CELL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROINJECTION; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMA;

BACTERIAL DNA;

CELL MEMBRANE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROMANIPULATION; MYCOPLASMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0642338943     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00563-9     Document Type: Article

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