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Measuring Intracellular Metal Concentration via ICP-MS Following Copper Exposure

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Acinetobacter baumannii

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1946))

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This chapter describes protocols for measuring fluctuation in intracellular metal concentration of A. baumannii isolates in response to copper exposure using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS).

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Disclaimer and Funding: The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private ones of the authors and are not to be construed as official or reflecting the views of the Department of Defense, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, the University of Maryland, or any other agency of the US Government.

Work in the Merrell lab is supported by funds from the NIH and DoD. S.L.J.M. would like to thank the NSF (CHE-10020356) for support.

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  1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Caitlin L. Williams & D. Scott Merrell

  2. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Heather M. Neu & Sarah L. J. Michel

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA

    Indranil Biswas

  2. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Philip N. Rather

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Williams, C.L., Neu, H.M., Michel, S.L.J., Merrell, D.S. (2019). Measuring Intracellular Metal Concentration via ICP-MS Following Copper Exposure. In: Biswas, I., Rather, P. (eds) Acinetobacter baumannii. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1946. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9118-1_19

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