Use of propidium monoazide for live/dead distinction in microbial ecology

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 5111-5117

  Nocker, Andreas ^a   Sossa Fernandez, Priscilla ^b   Burr, Mark D ^a   Camper, Anne K ^a,c  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTOFAGASTA   (Chile)

^c Montana State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (DGGE); GENETIC FINGERPRINTS; HEAT STRESS; INTRINSIC LIMITATIONS;

CATALYSIS; DNA; ECOLOGY; ELECTROPHORESIS; GELS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIA;

2 PROPANOL; AZIDE; DNA; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PROPIDIUM MONOAZIDE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DETECTION METHOD; DYE; GENE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COVALENT BOND; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ECOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEAT STRESS; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; STAINING; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

2-PROPANOL; BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS; HEAT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROPIDIUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34548261775     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02987-06     Document Type: Article

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