Architecture and host interface of environmental chlamydiae revealed by electron cryotomography

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 417-429

  Pilhofer, Martin ^a,b   Aistleitner, Karin ^c   Ladinsky, Mark S ^a   König, Lena ^c   Horn, Matthias ^c   Jensen, Grant J ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS PROTOCHLAMYDIA AMOEBOPHILA; CHLAMYDIAE; PARACHLAMYDIA; PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE; SIMKANIA; SIMKANIA NEGEVENSIS;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; CHLAMYDIACEAE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAMICROTOMY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; CHLAMYDIALES; CRYOULTRAMICROTOMY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITOCHONDRIA;

EID: 84892990958     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12299     Document Type: Article

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