In living color: Bacterial pigments as an untapped resource in the classroom and beyond

PLoS Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Charkoudian, Louise K ^a   Fitzgerald, Jay T ^a   Khosla, Chaitan ^a   Champlin, Andrea ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Museum of Fine Arts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINORHODINE; BACTERIAL PIGMENT; NATURAL PRODUCT; PAINT; RECOMBINANT DNA; SCAVENGER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ART; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DRAWING; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; NONHUMAN; PAINTING; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; SCALE UP; STREPTOMYCES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ART; COLOR; EDUCATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PAINT; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; STREPTOMYCES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78149402860     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000510     Document Type: Article

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