To be or not to be: The ultimate decision of the growth-arrested bacterial cell

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 283-290

  Nyström, Thomas ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bacterial ageing; Cell density; Cell suicide; Oxidative defence; Stationary phase

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN RADICAL; PROTEIN;

AGING; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DENSITY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROKARYOTE; REGULON; REVIEW; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0031882560     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(97)00060-0     Document Type: Article

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