Published in J Bacteriol on April 20, 2012
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The solar UV environment and bacterial spore UV resistance: considerations for Earth-to-Mars transport by natural processes and human spaceflight. Mutat Res (2005) 1.30
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Combination of Raman tweezers and quantitative differential interference contrast microscopy for measurement of dynamics and heterogeneity during the germination of individual bacterial spores. J Biomed Opt (2010) 1.23
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Investigating the role of small, acid-soluble spore proteins (SASPs) in the resistance of Clostridium perfringens spores to heat. BMC Microbiol (2006) 1.19
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Conformational changes of fibrinogen after adsorption. J Phys Chem B (2005) 1.11
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The physical state of water in bacterial spores. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.09
Detection of chiral sum frequency generation vibrational spectra of proteins and peptides at interfaces in situ. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 1.08
Vibrational spectroscopic studies on fibrinogen adsorption at polystyrene/protein solution interfaces: hydrophobic side chain and secondary structure changes. J Phys Chem B (2006) 1.08
Analysis of interactions between nutrient germinant receptors and SpoVA proteins of Bacillus subtilis spores. FEMS Microbiol Lett (2007) 1.08
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Ordered adsorption of coagulation factor XII on negatively charged polymer surfaces probed by sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy. Anal Bioanal Chem (2007) 1.07
Photosensitization of DNA by dipicolinic acid, a major component of spores of Bacillus species. Photochem Photobiol Sci (2005) 1.07
The protease CspB is essential for initiation of cortex hydrolysis and dipicolinic acid (DPA) release during germination of spores of Clostridium perfringens type A food poisoning isolates. Microbiology (2009) 1.07
In situ investigation of heterotrimeric G protein betagamma subunit binding and orientation on membrane bilayers. J Am Chem Soc (2007) 1.06
Solventless adhesive bonding using reactive polymer coatings. Anal Chem (2008) 1.06
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SFG studies on interactions between antimicrobial peptides and supported lipid bilayers. Biochim Biophys Acta (2006) 1.05
Detection of amide I signals of interfacial proteins in situ using SFG. J Am Chem Soc (2003) 1.05
Characterization of bacterial spore germination using integrated phase contrast microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and optical tweezers. Anal Chem (2010) 1.04
Characterization of spores of Bacillus subtilis that lack most coat layers. J Bacteriol (2008) 1.04
Orientation determination of protein helical secondary structures using linear and nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy. J Phys Chem B (2009) 1.04
Probing the spontaneous membrane insertion of a tail-anchored membrane protein by sum frequency generation spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc (2010) 1.03
Structure-based functional studies of the effects of amino acid substitutions in GerBC, the C subunit of the Bacillus subtilis GerB spore germinant receptor. J Bacteriol (2011) 1.02
Identification of new proteins that modulate the germination of spores of bacillus species. J Bacteriol (2013) 1.02
Monitoring rates and heterogeneity of high-pressure germination of bacillus spores by phase-contrast microscopy of individual spores. Appl Environ Microbiol (2013) 1.01
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Structure and mechanism of action of a cofactor-dependent phosphoglycerate mutase homolog from Bacillus stearothermophilus with broad specificity phosphatase activity. J Mol Biol (2002) 1.00
Characterization of wet-heat inactivation of single spores of bacillus species by dual-trap Raman spectroscopy and elastic light scattering. Appl Environ Microbiol (2010) 0.99