Visualization of gram-positive bacterial pili

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 966, Issue , 2013, Pages 77-95

  Chang, Chungyu ^a   Huang, I Hsiu ^a   Hendrickx, Antoni P A ^b   Ton That, Hung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Fimbriae; Gram positive bacteria; Immunoelectron microscopy; Pilus detection; Sortase; Western blots

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL FRACTIONATION; FIMBRIA; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL FRACTIONATION; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879284497     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-245-2_5     Document Type: Article

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