Characterization of bacterial spore germination using phase-contrast and fluorescence microscopy, Raman spectroscopy and optical tweezers

Characterization of Bacterial Spore Germination Using Integrated Phase Contrast Microscopy, Raman Spectroscopy, and Optical Tweezers

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Monitoring the Kinetics of Uptake of a Nucleic Acid Dye during the Germination of Single Spores ofBacillusSpecies

(2010) Lingbo Kong et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Factors Affecting Variability in Time between Addition of Nutrient Germinants and Rapid Dipicolinic Acid Release during Germination of Spores of Bacillus Species

(2010) P. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Combination of Raman tweezers and quantitative differential interference contrast microscopy for measurement of dynamics and heterogeneity during the germination of individual bacterial spores

(2010) Pengfei Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS

Multiple-trap laser tweezers Raman spectroscopy for simultaneous monitoring of the biological dynamics of multiple individual cells

(2010) Pengfei Zhang et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Elastic and Inelastic Light Scattering from Single Bacterial Spores in an Optical Trap Allows the Monitoring of Spore Germination Dynamics

(2009) Lixin Peng et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

High-resolution, long-term characterization of bacterial motility using optical tweezers

(2009) Taejin L Min et al.   NATURE METHODS

Release of Small Molecules during Germination of Spores of Bacillus Species

(2008) B. Setlow et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Getting organized — how bacterial cells move proteins and DNA

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