DNA as a nutrient: Novel role for bacterial competence gene homologs

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 183, Issue 21, 2001, Pages 6288-6293

  Finkel, Steven E ^a   Kolter, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0035685198     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.21.6288-6293.2001     Document Type: Article

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