The mode of cell wall growth in selected archaea is similar to the general mode of cell wall growth in bacteria as revealed by fluorescent dye analysis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1556-1562

  Wirth, Reinhard ^a   Bellack, Annett ^a   Bertl, Markus ^b   Bilek, Yvonne ^a   Heimerl, Thomas ^a   Herzog, Bastian ^a   Leisner, Madeleine ^c   Probst, Alexander ^a   Rachel, Reinhard ^a   Sarbu, Christina ^a   Schopf, Simone ^a   Wanner, Gerhard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Karl Ritter von Frisch Gymnasium Moosburg   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEXA FLUOR; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL; CELL LENGTHS; CELL SURFACES; CELL WALLS; FLUORESCENCE STAINING; FLUORESCENT DYES; HYPERTHERMOPHILIC ARCHAEA; IN-SITU ANALYSIS; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; ROD-SHAPED; SUCCINIMIDYL ESTER;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CELL MEMBRANES; ESTERS; FLUORESCENCE;

ECOLOGY;

FLUORESCENT DYE;

DYE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESTER; FLUORESCENCE; GROWTH MODELING; PROKARYOTE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL WALL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; STAINING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARCHAEA; CELL WALL; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; ORGANELLES; STAINING AND LABELING;

ALEXA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COCCOIDEA; METHANOPYRUS KANDLERI; METHANOTHERMUS SOCIABILIS; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS;

EID: 79953183979     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02423-10     Document Type: Article

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