Exploring bacterial cell biology with single-molecule tracking and super-resolution imaging

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 9-22

  Gahlmann, Andreas ^a   Moerner, W E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE BETA; FLUORESCENT DYE; FTSZ PROTEIN; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; POPZ PROTEIN; TISSUE FACTOR PATHWAY INHIBITOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; DNA BINDING; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; LACTOSE OPERON; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE MOLECULE TRACKING; STOICHIOMETRY; SUPER RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CYTOSKELETON; DNA, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84890531231     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3154     Document Type: Review

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