Intracellular vesicles as reproduction elements in cell wall-deficient L-form bacteria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Briers, Yves ^a   Staubli, Titu ^a   Schmid, Markus C ^b   Wagner, Michael ^b   Schuppler, Markus ^a   Loessner, Martin J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPID; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CELL METABOLISM; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DAUGHTER CELL; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENE MUTATION; LIPID STORAGE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PROTOPLAST; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REPRODUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PROKARYOTA;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CYTOPLASMIC VESICLES; DNA PRIMERS; ENTEROCOCCUS; L FORMS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84862021659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038514     Document Type: Article

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