Raman microspectroscopy reveals long-term extracellular activity of chlamydiae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 687-700

  Haider, Susanne ^a   Wagner, Michael ^a   Schmid, Markus C ^a   Sixt, Barbara S ^a   Christian, Jan G ^b,c   Häcker, Georg ^c   Pichler, Peter ^a   Mechtler, Karl ^d   Müller, Albert ^a   Baranyi, Christian ^a   Toenshoff, Elena R ^a   Montanaro, Jacqueline ^a   Horn, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

AMOEBA (GENUS); ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ISOTOPE LABELING; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTOCHLAMYDIA AMOEBOPHILA; SPECTROPHOTOMETER; SYMBIONT; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS PROTOCHLAMYDIA AMOEBOPHILA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; HUMANS; PHENYLALANINE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 77954845561     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07241.x     Document Type: Article

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