Multi-color imaging of the bacterial nucleoid and division proteins with blue, orange, and near-infrared fluorescent proteins

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Wu, Fabai ^a   Van Rijn, Erwin ^a   Van Schie, Bas G C ^a   Keymer, Juan E ^a,b   Dekker, Cees ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bacterial cell division; Bacterial chromosome; Fluorescent proteins; FtsZ; HU; MinD; TagBFP; TagRFP T

Indexed keywords

BLUE FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; INFRARED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KANAMYCIN; MIND PROTEIN; ORANGE FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE FUSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTOTOXICITY; PLASMID; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84937002120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00607     Document Type: Article

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