Can genetically modified Escherichia coli with neutral buoyancy induced by gas vesicles be used as an alternative method to clinorotation for microgravity studies?

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 69-74

  Benoit, Michael ^a   Klaus, David ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL SEPARATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYPOTHESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

BIOREACTORS; CENTRIFUGATION; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTEINS; ROTATION; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 13444304504     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27062-0     Document Type: Article

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