Addiction modules and programmed cell death and antideath in bacterial cultures

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue , 1999, Pages 43-70

  Engelberg Kulka, Hanna ^a   Glaser, Gad ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bacteriophage ; Plasmids; Postsegregational killing; Protein degradation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL DEATH; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW;

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, VIRAL; PLASMIDS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0032696759     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.53.1.43     Document Type: Review

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