Bacteria killing their own kind: Novel bacteriocins of Pseudomonas and other γ-proteobacteria

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 107-112

  Parret, Annabel H A ^a   De Mot, René ^a  

^a Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; PYOCIN;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DEGRADATION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; KLEBSIELLA; NONHUMAN; PHOTORHABDUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW;

ANTIBIOSIS; BACTERIOCINS; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS; PSEUDOMONAS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; KLEBSIELLA; NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTORHABDUS; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0036498849     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(02)02307-7     Document Type: Review

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