Cell age dependent concentration of Escherichia coli divisome proteins analyzed with ImageJ and ObjectJ

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Vischer, Norbert O E ^a   Verheul, Jolanda ^a   Postma, Marten ^a   van den Berg van Saparoea, Bart ^a,b   Galli, Elisa ^c   Natale, Paolo ^d   Gerdes, Kenn ^c,e   Luirink, Joen ^b   Vollmer, Waldemar ^c   Vicente, Miguel ^d   den Blaauwen, Tanneke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Divisome; FtsN; FtsZ; Image analysis; Immunolocalization; LpoA; Non destructive marking; PBP1B

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIVISOME PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL AGING; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SIZE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENOTYPE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SOFTWARE; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STOICHIOMETRY; WILD TYPE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 84936993818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00586     Document Type: Article

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