Relating cell killing to inactivation of critical components

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 914-917

  Miles, Christopher A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; HEAT TREATMENT; MICROBIOLOGY; THERMAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

CELL KILLING; CFU; INACTIVATION; LIFE-THREATENING TREATMENT;

BACTERIOLOGY;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYTOTOXIN; DNA; RNA POLYMERASE; BACTERIAL DNA; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

BACTERIUM; CALORIMETRY; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CALCULATION; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL KILLING; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DENATURATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; HEAT TREATMENT; IRRADIATION; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; RIBOSOME; THERMOGRAPHY; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; DNA DENATURATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; METABOLISM; PROTEIN DENATURATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; HEAT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RIBOSOMES;

EID: 33644849618     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.1.914-917.2006     Document Type: Article

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