Using nanotechniques to explore microbial surfaces

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 451-460

  Dufrêne, Yves F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FOLDING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; BACTERIUM; CELL WALL; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CELL WALL; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 4444233817     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro905     Document Type: Review

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