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Full-Text Articles in Medical Microbiology
Identification Of The Causative Bacteria In Musculoskeletal Infections Using 16s Rdna - Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis Analysis, Karen Gomez
Dissertations & Theses (Open Access)
Musculoskeletal infections are infections of the bone and surrounding tissues. They are currently diagnosed based on culture analysis, which is the gold standard for pathogen identification. However, these clinical laboratory methods are frequently inadequate for the identification of the causative agents, because a large percentage (25-50%) of confirmed musculoskeletal infections are false negatives in which no pathogen is identified in culture. My data supports these results. The goal of this project was to use PCR amplification of a portion of the 16S rRNA gene to test an alternative approach for the identification of these pathogens and to assess the diversity …
Study Of Polytopic Membrane Protein Topological Organization As A Function Of Membrane Lipid Composition, Mikhail Bogdanov, Philip N Heacock, William Dowhan
Study Of Polytopic Membrane Protein Topological Organization As A Function Of Membrane Lipid Composition, Mikhail Bogdanov, Philip N Heacock, William Dowhan
Faculty and Staff Publications
A protocol is described using lipid mutants and thiol-specific chemical reagents to study lipid-dependent and host-specific membrane protein topogenesis by the substituted-cysteine accessibility method as applied to transmembrane domains (SCAM). SCAM is adapted to follow changes in membrane protein topology as a function of changes in membrane lipid composition. The strategy described can be adapted to any membrane system.