Comprehensive Analysis of Cell Wall-Permeabilizing Conditions for Highly Sensitive Fluorescence in Situ Hybridization

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 227-234

  Furukawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Hoshino, Tatsuhiko ^a   Tsuneda, Satoshi ^a   Inamori, Yuhei ^b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

cell wall; functional gene; highly sensitive FISH; large molecule; permeabilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849126227     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.21.227     Document Type: Article

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