Live Cell Imaging of Germination and Outgrowth of Individual Bacillus subtilis Spores; the Effect of Heat Stress Quantitatively Analyzed with SporeTracker

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Pandey, Rachna ^a   Ter Beek, Alex ^a   Vischer, Norbert O E ^a   Smelt, Jan P P M ^a   Brul, Stanley ^a   Manders, Erik M M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA PROCESSING; HEAT STRESS; HEAT TREATMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PROCESS DESIGN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPORE GERMINATION; SPOROGENESIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CULTURE MEDIA; HOT TEMPERATURE; SPORES, BACTERIAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 84875430108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058972     Document Type: Article

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