Changing Concepts in the Characterisation of Microbes and the Influence of Mass Spectrometry

Mass Spectrometry for Microbial Proteomics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-34

  Shah, Haroun N ^a   Chilton, Caroline ^a   Rajakaruna, Lakshani ^a   Gaulton, Tom ^a   Hallas, Gillian ^a   Atanassov, Hristo ^b   Khoder, Ghalia ^b   Rakowska, Paulina D ^c   Cerasoli, Eleonora ^c   Gharbia, Saheer E ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b POITIERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bergery's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology changing format, reflecting this pattern; Chemical analysis of bacterial cell macromolecules; Diversity and interrelationships between species central to microbiology development; Microbe characterisation and mass spectrometry influence changing concepts; Microorganism characterisation by MALDI TOF MS; Nanoparticles, alternative approach in analysis and low abundance and low molecular weight protein detection; New technologies major impact elucidating complex mechanisms in host bacterial interaction; Proteomes of diverse strains within species comparative analysis; Sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS PAGE); TOF MS experiments development of databases for pattern retrieval and profile matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886551621     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470665497.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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