Search the NIGMS Image and Video Gallery
Topic Tags:
CellsChemistry, Biochemistry, and PharmacologyTools and Techniques
Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) cells being killed by a fluorescent trans-translation inhibitor, which disrupts bacterial protein synthesis. The inhibitor is naturally fluorescent and looks blue when it is excited by ultraviolet light in the microscope. This is a color version of Image 3481.
Kenneth Keiler, Penn State University
Keiler lab, Penn State University
Photograph
3525