Nonperturbative imaging of nucleoid morphology in live bacterial cells during an antimicrobial peptide attack

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 4977-4986

  Bakshi, Somenath ^a   Choi, Heejun ^a   Rangarajan, Nambirajan ^a   Barns, Kenneth J ^a   Bratton, Benjamin P ^a,b   Weisshaar, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CELL MEMBRANES; CITRUS FRUITS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; POLYPEPTIDES;

ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANES; CELL PERMEABILIZATION; CYTOPLASMIC MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; LASER ILLUMINATION; LONG-TERM EFFECTS; MORPHOLOGY AND DYNAMICS;

CYTOLOGY;

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; CAP18 LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE-BINDING PROTEIN; CECROPIN A; FLUORESCENT DYE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; NUCLEOLUS; STAINING;

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CELL NUCLEOLUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 84904878522     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00989-14     Document Type: Article

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