Surface architecture of endospores of the Bacillus cereus/anthracis/ thuringiensis family at the subnanometer scale

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 38, 2011, Pages 16014-16019

  Kailas, Lekshmi ^a   Terry, Cassandra ^a,c   Abbott, Nicholas ^a   Taylor, Robert ^a   Mullin, Nic ^a   Tzokov, Svetomir B ^a   Todd, Sarah J ^a   Wallace, B A ^b   Hobbs, Jamie K ^a   Moir, Anne ^a   Bullough, Per A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryoelectron microscopy; Electron crystallography; Two dimensional crystal

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; BACTERIAL SPORE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXOSPORIUM; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; CLOSTRIDIA;

EID: 80053148042     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1109419108     Document Type: Article

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