Super-resolution imaging of the cytokinetic Z ring in live bacteria using fast 3D-structured illumination microscopy (f3D-SIM)

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 91, 2014, Pages

  Turnbull, Lynne ^a   Strauss, Michael P ^a   Liew, Andrew T F ^a   Monahan, Leigh G ^a   Whitchurch, Cynthia B ^a   Harry, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

3D SIM; Bacillus subtilis; Bacteria; Blaze; Cell division; Fluorescence microscopy; FtsZ; Issue 91; Molecular Biology; OMX; Staphylococcus aureus; Super resolution microscopy; Z ring constriction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; FLUORESCENT DYE; FTSZ PROTEIN, BACTERIA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; PROCEDURES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84908265013     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/51469     Document Type: Article

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